Canis dirus, Wolf jawbone
Contact The Charleston Museum for image use and credit instructions.
Description:
A fragment of the right mandibular ramus with pm2 and the roots of pm1 associated with dire wolf (Canis dirus) remains.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Runnymeade Plant.
- Site Number: NH20D
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Canidae
- Genus: Canis
- Species: Canis dirus
- Formation: Uncertain
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Carnivores
- Object Id: PV2637
- Search Terms