Phestia Chernyshev 1951 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae

Parent taxon: Phestiinae according to M. A. Pagani and S. M. Ferrari 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Bradshaw 1999, Fang 2006, Fang and Cope 2004, Hayami and Kase 1977, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Phestia basedowi Phestia corrugata Phestia darwini Phestia elongata Phestia guizhouensis Phestia hunanensis Phestia inflata Phestia inflatiformis Phestia jamesi Phestia lusabaensis Phestia nova Phestia obtusa Phestia pandoraeformis Phestia perumbonata Phestia rugodorsata Phestia sabattinae Phestia sinuata Phestia speluncaria Phestia subacuta Phestia thompsoni Phestia undosa Phestia wortheni Phestia zhejiangensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (23 collections), China (32), Greece (2), Greenland (1), India (4), Iran (1), Japan (3), Lithuania (1), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (22), Tunisia (5), the United Kingdom (8), United States (3: Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming)

• Virgilian of United States (53: Illinois, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (6: Kansas, New Mexico, Texas)

• Westphalian of United States (1: Kentucky)

• Pennsylvanian of Argentina (1), Mexico (3), United States (1: California)

• Chesterian of United States (5: Montana, Ohio, West Virginia)

• Osagean of United States (2: Indiana)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Mississippian of United States (2: Indiana)

• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (7), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (41: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)

• Devonian of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (5), Turkey (1), United States (33: Missouri, New York)

Total: 288 collections including 316 occurrences

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