Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
Alternative spelling: Isocardium
Parent taxon: Isocardiidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010
See also Dickerson 1916, Glenn 1904, Popenoe 1937 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Blagraveia, Glossus, Meiocardia, Rakhia, Fissilunula, Isocardioides, Bucardia
Subtaxa: Isocardia azzarolae Isocardia branneri Isocardia buchii Isocardia bulbosa Isocardia chicoensis Isocardia cor Isocardia coutinhoana Isocardia delta Isocardia hendersoni Isocardia ignolea Isocardia irelandi Isocardia parisiense Isocardia parvula Isocardia praecisa Isocardia shumardi Isocardia subsinuata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection)
• Pliocene of the United Kingdom (4)
• Miocene of Denmark (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Hungary (2), Romania (1)
• Paleocene of China (1), Egypt (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (5), Chile (7), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (4), Germany (1), Mexico (1), Switzerland (6), Tanzania (1), United States (22: California, North Carolina, Tennessee)
• Jurassic of Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (8), Ethiopia (1), France (4), Germany (1), Poland (1)
• Triassic of Italy (3)
• Silurian of Algeria (1)
Total: 85 collections including 94 occurrences
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