Pterosphenus schucherti, Snake vertebra
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Description:
One verteba associated with marine snake (Choctaw Giant Aquatic Snake; Pterosphenus schucherti) remains.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Giant Cement Quarry
- Site Number: NH30G
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Eocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Squamata
- Family: Palaeophiidae
- Genus: Pterosphenus
- Species: Pterosphenus schucherti
- Formation: Cross
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Snakes and Lizards
- Object Id: PV5765
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