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
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)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (8), Mexico (3), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (110: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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