Panopea dockensis

Panopea dockensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myoida
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Species: P. dockensis
Binomial name
Panopea dockensis
Olsson and Petit, 1964

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]

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