Family Glossidae Gray 1847 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae

Synonyms: Bucardiidae Adams and Adams 1857, Isocardiidae

Parent taxon: Glossoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Popenoe 1937, Vokes 1980 and Ward 1992

Sister taxa: Kelliellidae, Vesicomyidae

Subtaxa: Blagraveia Bucardia Fissilunula Glossus Isocardia Isocardioides Meiocardia Rakhia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Italy (2), Japan (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (2)

• Pliocene of Belgium (5), India (1), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (8: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (2), Denmark (2), Germany (33), Grenada (2), Haiti (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Slovakia (5), United States (38: Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia), Vanuatu (1)

• Oligocene of Austria (1), Denmark (4), France (4), Hungary (2), Romania (2)

• Eocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Colombia (1), India (1), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (2), Romania (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (20: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (2), China (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Sweden (1), United States (8: Alabama, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Australia (1), Brazil (5), Canada (2: Alberta), Chile (7), Czechia (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (16), France (4), Germany (2), Mexico (1), Nigeria (2), Poland (1), Switzerland (6), Tanzania (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (69: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (8), Ethiopia (1), France (4), Germany (1), Poland (1)

• Triassic of China (1), Italy (3)

• Silurian of Algeria (1)

Total: 341 collections including 371 occurrences

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