Glyptotherium floridanum, Dermal plates
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Description:
A cast of osteoscutes associated with the remains of a glyptotherium. The orignal was collected by Louis Stieffel from Myaakahatchee creek (Sarasota county), Florida in 1996.
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cingulata
- Family: Glyptodontidae
- Genus: Glyptotherium
- Species: Glyptotherium floridanum
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Armored Mammals
- Object Id: PV7634
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