Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth vertebra
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Description:
A thoracic vertebra from a ground sloth collected October 1937.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Hoopstick Island
- Site Number: NH21O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Species: Eremotherium laurillardi
- Formation: Wando
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV7692
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