Tapirus veroensis, Tapir skull
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Description:
One skull associated with tapir (Tapirus veroensis) remains collected from diving in the Cooper River. This skull represents the best preserved tapir skull in The Charleston Museum collection.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Cooper River W. Branch
- Site Number: NH30Kb
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Perissodactyla
- Family: Tapiridae
- Genus: Tapirus
- Species: Tapirus veroensis
- Formation: Undetermined
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Perissodactyls
- Object Id: PV4257
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