Metaxytherium floridanum, Skull elements
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Description:
A skull roof fragment associated with dugong (Metaxytherium floridanum) remains.
Synonym: Halitherium antiquum
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Cooper River
- Site Number: NH30K
- 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: PV1976
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