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]
| Panopea dockensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Adapedonta |
| Family: | Hiatellidae |
| Genus: | Panopea |
| Species: | P. dockensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Panopea dockensis Olsson and Petit, 1964
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References edit
- ^ Fossil Collecting in North Carolina: Bulletin 89. North Carolina Geologic Survey. 1988.