Metaxytherium floridanum, Skull elements
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Description:
The ankylosed parietal-occipital complex associated with dugong (Metaxytherium floridanum) remains.
Synonym: Halitherium antiquum
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Metaxytherium
- Species: Metaxytherium floridanum
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV2310
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