Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth bone
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Description:
An undetermined bone from a ground sloth collected from the vicinity of Charleston, Berkeley, and Dochester counties.
- Site: SC; South Carolina
- Site Number: NH18
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Species: Eremotherium laurillardi
- Formation: Ten Mile Hill (?)
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV7607
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