Panopea (mollusc)
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Panopea Temporal range: Triassic - Recent |
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| Panopea zelandica | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Myoida |
| Family: | Hiatellidae |
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Panopea Ménard, 1807 |
Panopea is a genus of large marine bivalve molluscs or clams in the family Hiatellidae. There are 10 described species in Panopea. Many of them are known under the common name geoduck.
Extinct species within this genus' include:
The fossil record of the genus dates back to the Cretaceous (and maybe the Triassic) (age range: 242.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.
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