Metaxytherium floridanum, Skull elements
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Description:
One skull cap associated with dugong (Metaxytherium floridanum) remains; this includes a plaster cast made by U.S.N.M.
Synonym: Halitherium antiquum
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; YMCA #5
- Site Number: NH40Ed
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Miocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Metaxytherium
- Species: Metaxytherium floridanum
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV4759
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