Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1854. Fossil Testacea of the Tertiary green-sand and marl-bed of Jackson, Miss. Determined and named by T. A. Conrad. Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi 289
Belongs to Glossus according to T. A. Conrad 1856
See also Conrad 1854
Sister taxa: Glossus (Aralocardia), Glossus (Cytherocardia), Glossus (Glossus), Glossus (Meiocardia), Glossus (Miocardiella), Glossus (Miocardiopsis), Glossus (Sulcocardia), Glossus aquilinus, Glossus fraterna, Glossus markoei, Glossus marylandica, Glossus mazlea, Glossus moreauensis, Glossus santamaria, Glossus slatana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Jackson, which is in an Eocene coastal horizon in Mississippi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Jackson
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