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Geoduck Clam
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By I_gotta_rock (edited)
Taxonomy
Geoduck Clam
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalva
Order: Adapedonta
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Species: Panopea goldfussii
Author Citation Wagner, 1839
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drumcliff Member
Provenance
Collector: me
Date Collected: 07/03/2017
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 9 cm
Width: 5 cm
Height: 2 cm
Location
St Leonard
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- chesapeake bay
- choptank
- clam
- geoduck
- leonard
- maryland
- matoaka
- miocene
- panopea
- saint
- shell
- st
Comments
This was excavated from a block of matrix collected from submerged landslide material in the Chesapeake Bay.
The common name of the shell is pronounced "gooey-duck."
The height listed is the diameter of the opening between valves on the posterior side, where the siphon extended.
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