Phestia thompsoni

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

No picture of Phestia thompsoni 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 thompsoni, 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 105 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences176–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290.1 Mya184.2 Mya296 Mya172 Mya

4 occurrences of Phestia thompsoni 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

4 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

2 formations

Agglomeratic Slate — 34.10°N, 74.88°EQudi — 33.72°N, 80.35°E

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The named rock units Phestia thompsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phestia thompsoni and its relatives

Permian

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

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Phestia thompsoni, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Phestia thompsoni 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 thompsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phestia thompsoni was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

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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. (Reed 1932)