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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7862365	https://www.gbif.org/species/7862365
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16101	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16101

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanidae : Phestia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanidae : Phestia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Phestia	Chernyshev 1951

Scientific Name

Phestia Chernyshev, 1951

Name Published In

Trudy Inst. heol. Nauk, Kyyiv (Ser. Stratigr. Paleont.) No. 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Phestia	genus	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Hayami and Kase, 1977
Phestia	genus	belongs to Nuculoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Phestia	genus	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Fang and Cope, 2004
Phestia	genus	belongs to Phestiinae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Phestia	genus	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Ros-Franch et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

419 - 411 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

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)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Leda elongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leda inflata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leda inflatiformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Leda pandoraeformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nucula perumbonata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nucula speluncaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuculana basedowi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuculana hunanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuculana rugodorsata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	339 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Nuculana subacuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phestia basedowi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Phestia corrugata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Phestia darwini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		20	299 Ma Carboniferous	265 Ma Permian
Phestia elongata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Phestia hunanensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		19	269 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Phestia inflata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	331 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Phestia jamesi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	304 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Phestia lusabaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Phestia nova ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Phestia obtusa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Phestia pandoraeformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	339 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Phestia perumbonata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Phestia sabattinae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phestia sinuata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Phestia speluncaria ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		15	279 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Phestia stevensiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phestia subacuta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Phestia thompsoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Phestia undosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	304 Ma Carboniferous	279 Ma Permian
Phestia wortheni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Phestia zhejiangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	269 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Tellinomya darwini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Phestia guizhouensis Xu, 1980	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanidae : Phestia : *Phestia guizhouensis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1951	Phestia Chernyshev
1977	Phestia Hayami and Kase
1980	Phestia guizhouensis Xu p. 4
2002	Phestia Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Phestia Fang and Cope
2006	Phestia Fang
2010	Phestia Bouchet et al.
2014	Phestia Ros-Franch et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Hayami I., Kase T. (1977) A systematic survey of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Gastropoda and Paleozoic Bivalvia from Japan, University of Tokyo Bulletin 13

Fang Z.-J. (2006) An introduction to Ordovician bivalves of southern China, with a discussion of the early evolution of the Bivalvia, Geological Journal 41, 303-328

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

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Contribution to the Systematics of the Upper Palaeozoic Taxodonta. Inst. Geol. Nauk Akad. Nauk Ukrain RSR Kiev - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Trudy Inst. heol. Nauk, Kyyiv (Ser. Stratigr. Paleont.) No. 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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