TBD, Dolphin skeletal remains
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Description:
A skull, eighteen vertebrae elements and twenty rib elements associated with the remains of a species of protocetid that is to be determined. One periodic is located in situ within the skull, the other is isolated. There is a single fragmentary tooth located in the left mandible.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.;Chandler Bridge Canal
- Site Number: NH40C
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Protocetidae
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV2761
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