Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
Alternative combinations: Ambocardia delta, Glossus delta
Full reference: W. P. Popenoe. 1937. Upper Cretaceous Mollusca from Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 11(5):379-402
Belongs to Isocardia according to W. P. Popenoe 1937
See also Saul 1996 and Sundberg 1980
Sister taxa: Isocardia azzarolae, Isocardia branneri, Isocardia buchii, Isocardia bulbosa, Isocardia chicoensis, Isocardia cor, Isocardia coutinhoana, Isocardia hendersoni, Isocardia ignolea, Isocardia irelandi, Isocardia parisiense, Isocardia parvula, Isocardia praecisa, Isocardia shumardi, Isocardia subsinuata
Type specimen: CIT (IP) 3436. Its type locality is CIT loc. 1164, Santiago Canyon, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Turonian marine horizon in the Ladd Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (13: California collections)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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