Alternative spelling: Glossacea
Parent taxon: Veneroitei according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Vokes 1980 and Ward 1992
Sister taxa: Arcticoidea, Chamoidea, Cyrenoidea, Gaimardioidea, Hemidonacoidea, Mactroidea, Ungulinoidea, Veneroidea
Subtaxa: Glossidae Kelliellidae Vesicomyidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Italy (2), Japan (1), United States (4: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (2)
• Pliocene of Belgium (5), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (3), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (11: California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Austria (5), Belgium (11), Bulgaria (3), Cuba (1), Denmark (2), Ecuador (4), Germany (37), Grenada (2), Haiti (2), Indonesia (3), Iran (3), Italy (6), Japan (8), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (25), Poland (6), Slovakia (5), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (52: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Colombia (1), Denmark (4), Ecuador (3), France (4), Hungary (2), Japan (2), Peru (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (25: Alaska, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Colombia (1), France (1), India (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Mexico (2), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (98: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (2), China (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Sweden (1), United States (16: Alabama, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Australia (1), Brazil (5), Chile (7), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (16), France (4), Germany (2), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Nigeria (2), Poland (1), Switzerland (6), Tanzania (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (48: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, 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: 559 collections including 662 occurrences