Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative combinations: Culunana bellistriata, Leda bellistriata, Nuculana bellistriata
Full reference: R. P. Stevens. 1858. Description of new Carboniferous fossils from the Appalachia, Illinois and Michigan coal fields. American Journal of Science 25:258-265
Belongs to Polidevcia according to B. S. Kues 1991
See also Ciriacks 1963, Girty 1915, Hoare 1961, Kues et al. 2002, Lintz 1958, Morningstar 1922, Murphy and Stevens 1967, Stevens 1858 and Yancey 1978
Sister taxa: Polidevcia abrupta, Polidevcia aequilata, Polidevcia antequadrata, Polidevcia arata, Polidevcia arctura, Polidevcia bicarinata, Polidevcia browni, Polidevcia cryptica, Polidevcia flexuosa, Polidevcia kasanensis, Polidevcia kolyvanica, Polidevcia lunulata, Polidevcia lyonsensis, Polidevcia magna, Polidevcia nodulosa, Polidevcia obesa, Polidevcia ovata, Polidevcia sharmani, Polidevcia stevensiana, Polidevcia thomasi, Polidevcia tulcumbensis, Polidevcia vorgaschorica, Polidevcia zabaikalica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (15: Nevada, Wyoming collections)
• Carboniferous of Spain (1), United States (35: Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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