Canis dirus, Wolf jawbone
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Description:
The right mandibular fragment with broken base of canine and lower second through fourth premolars associated with dire wolf (Canis dirus) remains; the lower first molar is also preserved.
Edisto Island (County not listed)
- Site: SC; South Carolina
- Site Number: NH18
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Canidae
- Genus: Canis
- Species: Canis dirus
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Carnivores
- Object Id: PV2282
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