Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth skeleton
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Description:
Partial skeleton associated with giant ground sloth remains including skull, mandibles, teeth, and postcrania. This specimen represents the earliest record for E. laurillardi in South Carolina. The mandible was laser scanned to produce a 3D rendering.
Additional vertebrate material and samples of mollusk fauna overlying the sloth bed were found with this specimen as well.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Trailwood Trailer Pk
- Site Number: NH20O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Species: Eremotherium laurillardi
- Formation: Penholoway
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV4748
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