Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth phalanx
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Description:
One ungual phalanx associated with sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Species: Eremotherium laurillardi
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV2426
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