Cimoliasaurus magnus,Plesiosaur vertebra
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Description:
Three associated posterior cervical vertebral centra associated with elasmosaur (Cimoliasaurus magnus) remains. One vertebra is split in two pieces and another has had a cast created from it.
- Site: SC; Florence Co.; Pee Dee River
- Site Number: NH28C
- Era: Mesozoic
- Period: Cretaceous
- Epoch: Upper
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Plesiosauria
- Family: Elasmosauridae
- Genus: Cimoliasaurus
- Species: Cimoliasaurus magnus
- Formation: Donoho Creek
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Plesiosaurs
- Object Id: PV7181
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