Megalonyx sp., Sloth tooth
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Description:
One tooth associated with giant ground sloth (Megalonyx sp.) remains.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Stallsville
- Site Number: NH40Bc
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megalonychidae
- Genus: Megalonyx
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV2788
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