Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative combination: Nuculana basedowi
Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1907. Official contributions to the palaeontology of South Australia, No. 18 - Carboniferous fossils from Fossil Head, Treachery Bay, Victoria River estuary. South Australian Parliamentary Paper 55(Suppl):6-11
Belongs to Phestia according to J. M. Dickins 1963
See also Etheridge 1907 and Fletcher 1945
Sister taxa: 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
Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Head, Port Keats Mission, Bonaparte Gulf, which is in a Roadian marine siliciclastic in the Lower Marine Beds Formation of Australia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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