Micromysticetus rothauseni, Whale bones
Description:
A partial skull with both periotics and axis vertebra, associated with whale (Micromysticetus rothauseni) remains.
This specimen is a Holotype. PV5933 is the Paratype.
Figures 7-13 in: Sanders, A.E., and L.G. Barnes, 2003; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology No. 93:271-293.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; NW Co. Rd. 230
- Site Number: NH40Ci
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Cetotheriopsidae
- Genus: Micromysticetus
- Species: Micromysticetus rothauseni
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV4844
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