cf. Metaxitherium sp., Dugong molar
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Description:
One tooth, a lower m3, associated with dugong remains.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Air Force Base#3
- Site Number: NH20Jb
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Metaxitherium
- Formation: Wando (?)
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV9480
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