Dioplotherium manigaulti, Dugong tusk
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Description:
One tusk associated with dugong remains.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Runnymeade Plant.
- Site Number: NH20D
- Dimensions: L-94.7 cm
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Miocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Dioplotherium
- Species: Dioplotherium manigaulti
- Formation: Uncertain
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV2599
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