Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nuculana thompsoni

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1932. New fossils from the Agglomerate Slate of Kashmir. Palaeontogical Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 20(1):1-79

Belongs to Phestia according to B. P. Liu and X. S. Cui 1983

Sister taxa: Phestia basedowi, Phestia corrugata, Phestia darwini, Phestia elongata, Phestia hunanensis, Phestia inflatiformis, Phestia lusabaensis, Phestia nova, Phestia obtusa, Phestia pandoraeformis, Phestia perumbonata, Phestia rugodorsata, Phestia sinuata, Phestia speluncaria, Phestia subacuta, Phestia wortheni, Phestia zhejiangensis

Type specimen: K 24.845, a valve (Right valve)

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve length 36.9