Crenatosiren olseni, Skull elements
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Description:
Plaster casts of cranial elements (the dorsal portion of the skull - frontals, parietals, supraoccipital; portion of the basicranium and tusk) associated with dugong (Crenatosiren olseni) remains.
Synonym: Halitherium olseni
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Sawmill Branch Canal
- Site Number: NH40I
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Crenatosiren
- Species: Crenatosiren olseni
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV4888
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