Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nuculana subacuta

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1881. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part III. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(3):185-328

Belongs to Phestia according to M. E. Clapham 2011

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 thompsoni, Phestia wortheni, Phestia zhejiangensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Chidru, topmost Productus Limestone, Salt Range, which is in a Changhsingian coastal sandstone in the Chhidru Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve 8.00 x 2.50