Phestia darwini

Searched as Nuculana etheridgei. The Paleobiology Database treats Phestia darwini as the accepted name.

No picture of Phestia darwini was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phestia darwini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhestiaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 24 occurrencesPermian332–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 6 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–258 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323.4 Mya259.857 Mya332 Mya253 Mya

24 occurrences of Phestia darwini on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

24 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

13 formations

Bundella — 43.17°S, 147.16°EBundella — 43.14°S, 147.13°EBundella — 42.92°S, 147.36°EBranxton — 32.81°S, 151.43°EBranxton — 32.73°S, 151.54°ERands — 24.95°S, 151.35°ERands — 25.00°S, 151.32°ENura Nura — 18.10°S, 124.46°ENura Nura — 18.05°S, 124.51°EPoole — 18.04°S, 124.52°EPoole — 18.10°S, 125.25°EShadrovskaya — 71.33°N, 52.30°EYagon Siltstone — 32.42°S, 152.22°ECuncudgerie — 21.02°S, 121.68°EIngelara — 25.01°S, 148.30°ESpreyton — 41.28°S, 146.43°EQuamby — 42.00°S, 147.00°EPoperima — 25.05°S, 151.34°EColraine — 31.92°S, 152.25°E

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The named rock units Phestia darwini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phestia darwini and its relatives

Permian

Where Phestia darwini and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Phestia darwini, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

10 references

Each of the 24 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Phestia darwini was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phestia darwini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phestia darwini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPhestia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Johnston 1887)