Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Full reference: T. E. Yancey. 1978. Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves. Bulletins of American Paleontology 74(303):257-367
Belongs to Polidevcia according to T. E. Yancey 1978
Sister taxa: Polidevcia abrupta, Polidevcia aequilata, Polidevcia antequadrata, Polidevcia arata, Polidevcia bellistriata, Polidevcia bicarinata, Polidevcia browni, Polidevcia cryptica, Polidevcia flexuosa, Polidevcia kasanensis, Polidevcia kolyvanica, Polidevcia lunulata, Polidevcia lyonsensis, Polidevcia magna, Polidevcia nodulosa, Polidevcia obesa, Polidevcia ovata, Polidevcia sharmani, Polidevcia stevensiana, Polidevcia thomasi, Polidevcia tulcumbensis, Polidevcia vorgaschorica, Polidevcia zabaikalica
Type specimen: USNM 245175, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is CHS 1J-6, Buck Mountain Section, which is in an Artinskian marine horizon in the Riepetown Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at CHS 1J-6, Buck Mountain Section
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