Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Full reference: 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

Belongs to Phestia according to J. B. Waterhouse 1983

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

Type specimen: UQ F63915. Its type locality is UQ L3719, Exmoor Homestead, which is in a Kungurian marine sandstone in the Gebbie Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 5.08 x 2.27, valve length 9.13