Panopea dockensis
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| Species: | †P. dockensis
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| †Panopea dockensis Olsson and Petit, 1964
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Panopea dockensis is an extinct species of marine bivalve mollusk 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]
- ^ Fossil Collecting in North Carolina: Bulletin 89. North Carolina Geologic Survey. 1988.