Phestia Explained

Phestia is an extinct genus of clam belonging to order Nuculanida and family Nuculanidae.^{[1] [2]}

Specimens have been found on all seven continents.^{[3] [4]}

Species

• P. basedowi Etheridge Jr., 1907^[5]
• P. corrugata Hoare et al., 1989^[6]
• P. darwini de Koninck, 1877^[7]
• P. guizhouensis Xu, 1980^[8]
• P. hunanensis Ku and Chen, 1963^[9]
• P. inflata Morningstar, 1922^[10]
• P. inflatiformis Chernyshev, 1989^[11]
• P. jamesi Biakov, 2002^[12]
• P. lusabaensis Dickins, 1999^[13]
• P. nova Waterhouse, 1983^[14]
• P. obtusa Hoare et al. 1989^[6]
• P. pandoraeformis Stevens, 1858^[15]
• P. perumbonata White, 1880^[16]
• P. sabbatinae Pagani, 2004^[17]
• P. sinuata Dembskaja, 1972^[18]
• P. speluncaria Geinitz, 1848^[19]
• P. subucuta Waagen, 1881^[20]
• P. thompsoni Reed, 1932^[21]
• P. undosa Muromtseva, 1984^[12]
• P. wortheni Hoare et al. 1989^[6]
• P. zhejiangensis Liu, 1976^[22]

Notes and References

1. Ros_Franch . S. . Márquez-Aliaga . A. . Damborenea . S.E. . Comprehensive database on Induan (Lower Triassic) to Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) marine bivalve genera and their paleobiogeographic record . Paleontological Contributions . 10 April 2014 . 8 . 1–219 . 10.17161/PC.1808.13433. free . 11336/84503 . free .
2. Web site: Fossilworks: Phestia. 2021-12-10. Fossilworks.
3. Web site: Mindat.org. 2021-12-10. mindat.org.
4. Web site: Mindat.org. 2021-12-10. mindat.org.
5. J.M. . Dickins . 1963 . Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia . Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics . 63 . 1–203.
6. Hoare . R. D. . Heaney . M. J. . Mapes . R. H. . Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Imo Formation (Mississippian, Chesterian) of north-central Arkansas . Journal of Paleontology . September 1989 . 63 . 5 . 582–603 . 10.1017/S0022336000041226. 1989JPal...63..582H .
7. M.J. . Clarke . 1992 . Hellyerian and Tamarian (Late Carboniferous-Lower Permian) invertebrate faunas from Tasmania . Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin . 69 . 1–54.
8. Book: J.T. . Xu . 1980 . Nomina nuda . Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan.
9. Z.J. . Fang . D.W. . Yin . 1995 . Discovery of fossil bivalves from Early Permian of Dongfang, Hainan Island with a review of glaciomarine origin of Nanlong diamictites . Acta Palaeontologica Sinica . 34 . 301–315 . 10 December 2021.
10. C.C. . Branson . 1958 . New names for Pennsylvanian mollusks . Oklahoma Geology Notes . 18 . 4 . 72.
11. Zong-Jie . Fang . Cope . John C. W. . Early Ordovician bivalves from Dali, West Yunnan, China . Palaeontology . September 2004 . 47 . 5 . 1121–1158 . 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00403.x. 2004Palgy..47.1121Z .
12. Biakov . A. S. . Bivalves of Northeast Asia at the Carboniferous–Permian Transition . Paleontological Journal . May 2019 . 53 . 3 . 241–251 . 10.1134/S0031030119030055. 2019PalJ...53..241B .
13. Dickins . J.M. . Mid-Permian (Kubergandian-Murgabian) bivalves from the Khuff Formation, Oman: Implications for world events and correlation . Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia . 31 March 1999 . 105 . 1 . 10.13130/2039-4942/5364.
14. Book: J.B. . Waterhouse . 1983 . Systematic summary, IN The sequence of Permian rocks and faunas near Exmoor Homestead south of Collinsville, north Bowen Basin . Permian Geology of Queensland . 231–267.
15. R.D. . Hoare . 2007 . Bivalve mollusks from the Maxville Limestone (Mississippian) in Ohio . The Ohio Journal of Science . 107 . 4 . 63–75 . 1811/45131 . 10 December 2021.
16. T.E. . Yancey . 1978 . Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 74 . 303 . 257–367.
17. Neves . Jacqueline Peixoto . Anelli . Luiz Eduardo . Simões . Marcello Guimarães . Early Permian post-glacial bivalve faunas of the Itararé Group, Paraná Basin, Brazil: Paleoecology and biocorrelations with South American intraplate basins . Journal of South American Earth Sciences . July 2014 . 52 . 203–233 . 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.03.001. 2014JSAES..52..203N .
18. Web site: Mindat.org. 2021-12-10. mindat.org.
19. Z.J. . Fang . 1987 . Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China . Collection of Postgraduate Theses of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica . 1987 . 1 . 349–411.
20. Web site: Mindat.org. 2021-12-10. mindat.org.
21. B.P. . Liu . X.S. . Cui . 1983 . Discovery of Eurydesma fauna from Rutog, northwest Xizang (Tibet), and its biogeographic significance. . Earth Science - Journal of Wuhan College of Geology . 19 . 1 . 79–92.
22. Z.J. . Fang . D.W. . Yin . 1995 . Discovery of fossil bivalves from Early Permian of Dongfang, Hainan Island with a review of glaciomarine origin of Nanlong diamictites . Acta Palaeontologica Sinica . 34 . 301–315.