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Panopea dockensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Adapedonta
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Species:
P. dockensis
Binomial name
Panopea dockensis
Olsson and Petit, 1964

Panopea dockensis is an extinct species of marine bivalve mollusc from the Pliocene–Pleistocene Waccamaw Formation of North Carolina. It was a close relative of the well-known Pacific geoduck. It gets its name from the locality of Old Dock in Columbus County, where it was first discovered.[1]

References

  1. ^ Fossil Collecting in North Carolina: Bulletin 89. North Carolina Geologic Survey. 1988.
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