Glyptotherium floridanum, Osteoscute
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Description:
A carapacial osteoscute associated with glyptodontid (Glyptotherium floridanum) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cingulata
- Family: Glyptodontidae
- Genus: Glyptotherium
- Species: Glyptotherium floridanum
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Armored Mammals
- Object Id: PV2418
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