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Geoduck Clam
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Taxonomy
Geoduck Clam
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalva
Order: Hiatellida
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Species: Panopea americana
Author Citation Conrad, 1838
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drum Cliff Member
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 07/03/2018
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 19 cm
Width: 11 cm
Height: 3 cm
Location
Matoaka Beach
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- calvert county
- chesapeake bay
- choptank
- drum cliff formation
- fossil
- geoduck
- maryland
- miocene
- shell
- st leonard
Comments
Sometimes you just get lucky. This geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) was sitting with its mate in living state, filled with matrix, under a pile of landslide rubble at the water's edge. The exteriors of both shells were almost completely clean of matrix. Most other specimens were badly cracked in the matrix and would never have survived the fall.
This shell was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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