Xenorophus sp., Whale skull
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Description:
One skull and several fragments of vertebra and ribs associated with the remains of an undescribed xenorophid odontocete collected from the Hunter's Woods subdivision near Crowfield Plantation, Ladson, South Carolina. The skeleton was recovered in August 1986.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Hunter's Woods
- Site Number: NH30Cc
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Xenorophidae
- Genus: Xenorophus
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV7677
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