Panopea

Searched as Panopea dupiniana. The Paleobiology Database treats Panopea as the accepted name.

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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya121.4 Mya149.9 Mya112.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Panopea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

7 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

2 formations

Picún Leufú — 38.87°S, 70.20°WPicún Leufú — 39.30°S, 70.25°WAgrio — 38.73°S, 69.92°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. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panopea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Panopea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,928 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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. 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 content2

Picture of Panopea

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itHiatellidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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