Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Full reference: J. M. Dickins. 1999. Mid-Permian (Kubergandian-Murgabian) bivalves from the Khuff Formation, Oman: implications for world events and correlation. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 105:23-36

Belongs to Phestia according to J. M. Dickins 1999

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

Type specimen: MGL 74075. Its type locality is Haushi Uplift OL9, Section 1, which is in a Wordian offshore limestone in the Khuff Formation of Oman.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve length 9.00