Dasypus bellus, Armadillo osteoscute
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Description:
One osteoscute associated with beautiful armadillo (Dasypus bellus) remains. Specimen is Early Rancholabrean, Late Illinoian in age.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Irongate Subdivision
- Site Number: NH40Q
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cingulata
- Family: Dasypodidae
- Genus: Dasypus
- Species: Dasypus bellus
- Formation: Ten Mile Hill Beds
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Armored Mammals
- Object Id: PV5838
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