Glossus Temporal range: Cretaceous–Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
The shell of Glossus humanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Glossoidea
Family:	Glossidae
Genus:	Glossus (Poli, 1801)
Species
See text.
Synonyms [1]
IsocardiaLamarck, 1799 BuccardiumMegerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 BucardiaSchumacher, 1817 BucardiumAgassiz, 1848

Glossus is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Glossidae. Only one species, the oxheart clam ( G. humanus ), is still extant, living in flat, muddy regions deep off the North Atlantic coastline of Europe.

Contents

• Fossil records
• Species
• Bibliography
• References

Fossil records

All species of this genus, including the remaining extant species, G. humanus, are found in the fossil record from the Cretaceous to the Pliocene (age range: from 99.7 to 2.588 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of eastern North America, Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific. ^[2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Glossus: ^[1]

Bibliography

• G. Owen - On The Biology Of Glossus Humanus (L.) (Isocardia Cor Lam.) Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1
• Guido Poppe und Yoshihiro Goto: European Seashells Volume 2 (Scaphopoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda). 221 S., Verlag Christa Hemmen, Wiesbaden 1993 (2000 unv. Nachdruck) ISBN   3-925919-10-4

References

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