Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Full reference: M. A. Bradshaw. 1999. Lower Devonian bivalves from the Reefton Group, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 20:1-171
Belongs to Phestia according to M. A. Bradshaw 1999
Sister taxa: Phestia arenacea, Phestia basedowi, Phestia corrugata, Phestia darwini, Phestia elongata, Phestia guizhouensis, Phestia hegani, Phestia hunanensis, Phestia inflata, Phestia inflatiformis, Phestia jamesi, Phestia lusabaensis, Phestia nova, Phestia obtusa, Phestia pandoraeformis, Phestia perumbonata, Phestia pluvia, Phestia rugodorsata, Phestia sabattinae, Phestia sinuata, Phestia speluncaria, Phestia subacuta, Phestia suggatei, Phestia thompsoni, Phestia undosa, Phestia wortheni, Phestia zhejiangensis
Subtaxa: Phestia ranfti lagea Phestia ranfti ranfti
Type specimen: CM M-14017A/1, a valve. Its type locality is Adam Mudstone, Inangahua & Waitahu Outliers, Reefton area, New Zealand, which is in an Emsian marine mudstone/siltstone in the Adam Mudstone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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