Albertocetus sp, Whale skull
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Description:
A whale skull from the Ashley(?) formation and most likely collected from one of the counties surrounding Charleston. However, specific locality information is unknown.
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Xenorophidae
- Genus: Albertocetus
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV9641
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