Metaxytherium albifontanum, Skeleton
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Description:
A partial skeleton associated with dugong remains: back of the right mandible, possible sternum fragment, most of the left mandible, half of a left m3 still in the left mandible, two maxilla fragments (one zygomatic arch fragment), two possible scapula fragments, the left humerus and a possible fragment, the left radius and ulna. This specimen was uncovered in an excavation for a piling, Mark Clark Expressway between Attaway St. and Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Mark Clark Expwy
- Site Number: NH20E
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Metaxytherium
- Species: Metaxytherium albifontanum
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV4757
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