Metaxytherium albifontanum, Skeleton

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Description:

A partial skeleton associated with dugong remains: back of the right mandible, possible sternum fragment, most of the left mandible, half of a left m3 still in the left mandible, two maxilla fragments (one zygomatic arch fragment), two possible scapula fragments, the left humerus and a possible fragment, the left radius and ulna. This specimen was uncovered in an excavation for a piling, Mark Clark Expressway between Attaway St. and Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.