Panopea

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 by the common name geoduck, from the name of the Pacific geoduck in the Lushootseed language; gʷidəq.

Panopea

GrahamBould · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HiatellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1214 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 1214 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 1214 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1214 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 1214 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 1214 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 196 of 1214 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 246 of 1214 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 72 of 1214 occurrencesEocene — about 122 of 1214 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 129 of 1214 occurrencesMiocene — about 256 of 1214 occurrencesPliocene — about 103 of 1214 occurrencesPleistocene — about 77 of 1214 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 16 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 53 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 46 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 45 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 34 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 13 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 21 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 34 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 148 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 73 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 47 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 34 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 76 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 94 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 120 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 129 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 218 occurrences241.464 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

1,214 occurrences of Panopea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1,214 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

307 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WLefipán — 42.83°S, 69.70°WRoca — 36.90°S, 67.92°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WVaqueros — 33.96°N, 120.07°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 118.71°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.05°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 120.99°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.75°N, 76.98°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.99°N, 76.16°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.52°N, 77.10°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.91°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.54°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WClallam — 48.26°N, 124.25°WYorktown — 37.22°N, 76.93°WYorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 37.17°N, 76.77°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.61°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°EJagüel — 36.55°S, 68.15°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WJagüel — 36.83°S, 69.26°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°WRio Turbio — 51.26°S, 72.22°WChoptank — 38.53°N, 76.52°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.50°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.21°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.48°N, 119.92°WTemblor — 35.38°N, 120.15°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.44°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WJacalitos — 36.14°N, 120.64°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.69°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WLefipan — 43.04°S, 69.33°WLefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WLefipan — 42.68°S, 69.84°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.97°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 31.85°N, 94.98°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 31.86°N, 94.94°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.45°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSt Marys — 38.26°N, 76.42°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WSt Marys — 38.45°N, 76.46°WSandgate — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.23°N, 0.22°WSandgate — 50.98°N, 0.75°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WSandgate — 51.02°N, 0.94°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°W

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The named rock units Panopea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 283 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 249 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panopea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Panopea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,927 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 866 sites for Panopea, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

359 references

Each of the 1,214 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 347 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Panopea

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Panopea bitruncata · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:589285-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Menard 1807