Phestia

Phestia is an extinct genus of clam belonging to order Nuculanida and family Nuculanidae.

Phestia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhestiinaePBDB
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 198 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 319 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 319 occurrencesDevonian — about 58 of 319 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 144 of 319 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 116 of 319 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 319 occurrences474–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–406 Mya — about 5 occurrences406–398 Mya — about 8 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 7 occurrences391–383 Mya — about 27 occurrences383–376 Mya — about 5 occurrences368–361 Mya — about 4 occurrences361–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–338 Mya — about 5 occurrences338–330 Mya — about 18 occurrences330–323 Mya — about 20 occurrences323–315 Mya — about 14 occurrences315–308 Mya — about 17 occurrences308–300 Mya — about 49 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 24 occurrences293–285 Mya — about 17 occurrences285–278 Mya — about 9 occurrences278–270 Mya — about 10 occurrences270–263 Mya — about 19 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 35 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 19 occurrences452.8 Mya254.14 Mya474 Mya248 Mya

319 occurrences of Phestia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

319 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

115 formations

Graham — 33.02°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.08°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.65°N, 75.16°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.66°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WDouling — 27.69°N, 113.22°EDouling — 26.55°N, 112.50°EDouling — 27.62°N, 111.65°EDouling — 26.23°N, 112.94°EDouling — 27.08°N, 111.32°EDouling — 25.80°N, 113.00°EDouling — 27.88°N, 112.61°EDouling — 27.75°N, 111.77°EImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.44°WImo — 35.81°N, 92.81°WFord — 54.97°N, 1.37°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.78°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.74°WGeneseo — 42.46°N, 75.04°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.65°N, 91.27°WMospyne — 48.23°N, 39.21°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°ECherokee Shale — 37.35°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.27°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.10°N, 94.79°WCherokee Shale — 37.05°N, 95.11°WMojon de Hierro — 43.50°S, 70.75°WMojon de Hierro — 43.72°S, 70.68°WMojon de Hierro — 44.53°S, 70.02°WAdam Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°ETully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGebbie — 20.93°S, 148.13°ELongtan — 27.77°N, 111.96°ELongtan — 26.14°N, 105.28°ELongtan — 25.58°N, 112.43°ELongtan — 27.17°N, 111.96°ELekvorkuta — 67.68°N, 64.18°ELekvorkuta — 67.60°N, 63.80°EBolitho Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EDjebel Tebaga — 33.41°N, 10.18°EDingjiashan — 29.32°N, 119.02°EBundella — 43.17°S, 147.16°EBundella — 43.14°S, 147.13°EBundella — 42.92°S, 147.36°EColraine — 31.90°S, 152.50°EColraine — 31.92°S, 152.25°EShadrovskaya — 71.33°N, 52.30°EShadrovskaya — 71.35°N, 52.36°EBranxton — 32.81°S, 151.43°EBranxton — 32.73°S, 151.54°EKozhevnikov — 73.47°N, 115.79°EKozhevnikov — 73.47°N, 115.99°E

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The named rock units Phestia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phestia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Phestia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,921 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 279 sites for Phestia, and this reads 240 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

113 references

Each of the 319 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. 101 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Phestia

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chernyshev 1951