Holmesina septentrionalis, Osteoscute
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Description:
A carapace scute from the caudal ring associated with an extinct mammal related to the pampathere (Holmesina septentrionalis) remains collected in 1978.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cingulata
- Family: Pampatheriidae
- Genus: Holmesina
- Species: Holmesina septentrionalis
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Armored Mammals
- Object Id: PV2420
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