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Polidevcia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	89553	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=89553

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanidae : Polidevcia

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Protobranchia	Pelseneer 1889
superorder	Nuculaniformii	Carter et al. 2000
order	Nuculanida
superfamily	Nuculanoidea	Adams and Adams 1858
family	Nuculanidae	Adams and Adams 1858
genus	Polidevcia	(Tschernyschev 1943)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Polidevcia	subgenus	belongs to Phestia	stated with evidence	Chernyshev, 1951
Polidevcia	genus	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Campbell and Engel, 1963
Polidevcia	genus	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Polidevcia	genus	belongs to Bivalvia	stated without evidence	Hoare, 1993
Polidevcia	genus	belongs to Polidevciinae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Polidevcia	subgenus	belongs to Phestia	stated without evidence	Ros-Franch et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

408 - 393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic (based on Nuculanidae)

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Nuculanidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder, suspension feeder (based on Nuculanidae)

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Nuculanidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite,thin,minor ribbing (based on Nuculanidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. D. Hoare. 1993. Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 67(3):374-396

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Polidevcia abrupta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Polidevcia aequilata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Polidevcia antequadrata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	269 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Polidevcia arata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	306 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Polidevcia arctura ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Polidevcia bellistriata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	51	318 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Polidevcia bicarinata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Polidevcia browni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	323 Ma Carboniferous	323 Ma Carboniferous
Polidevcia cryptica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	296 Ma Permian	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Polidevcia flexuosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	279 Ma Permian	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Polidevcia kasanensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	6	279 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Polidevcia kolyvanica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	296 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Polidevcia lunulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	296 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Polidevcia lyonsensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	7	299 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Polidevcia magna ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	9	279 Ma Permian	41.3 Ma Eocene
Polidevcia nodulosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Polidevcia obesa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	41	290 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Polidevcia ovata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	279 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Polidevcia sharmani ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Polidevcia stevensiana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	8	345 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Polidevcia thomasi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Polidevcia tulcumbensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Polidevcia vorgaschorica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Polidevcia zabaikalica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	265 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1943	Phestia (Polidevcia) Tschernyschev
1951	Phestia (Polidevcia) Chernyshev
1963	Polidevcia Campbell and Engel p. 98
1980	Polidevcia Vokes p. 161
1993	Polidevcia Hoare
2010	Polidevcia Bouchet et al.
2014	Phestia (Polidevcia) Ros-Franch et al.

References

Hoare R. D. (1993) Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia, Journal of Paleontology 67 3, 374-396

Campbell K. S. W., Engel B. A. (1963) The faunas of the Tournaisian Tulcumba Sandstone and its members in the Werrie and Belvue synclines, New South Wales, Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 10 1, 55-122

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Ros-Franch S., Márquez-Aliaga A., et al (2014) Comprehensive database on Induan (Lower Triassic) to Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) marine bivalve genera and their paleobiogeographic record, Paleontological Contributions 8, 1-219

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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