Ashleycetus planicaptis, Whale skull
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Description:
One partial skull of Ashleycetus planicaptis in two pieces consisting of the posterior portion of the skull with exoccipitals and basioccipital and most of the rostrum, orbits, and intertermporal region. The skull lacks most of its ventral surface.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; East Bank Ashley Riv
- Site Number: NH21Za
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Ashleycetidae
- Genus: Ashleycetus
- Species: Ashleycetus planicaptis
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV6003
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