Monachus tropicalis, Seal mandible
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Description:
The cast of the right mandibular ramus associated with Caribbean Monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) remains.
The original specimen is housed at the Smithsonian (USNM 425911).
- Site: SC; Horry Co.; PT Golf Course
- Site Number: NH22D
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Phocidae
- Genus: Monachus
- Species: Monachus tropicalis
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Carnivores
- Object Id: PV5719
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