Tapirus veroensis, Tapir tooth
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Description:
One deciduous right upper first molar associated with tapir (Tapirus veroensis) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Perissodactyla
- Family: Tapiridae
- Genus: Tapirus
- Species: Tapirus veroensis
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Perissodactyls
- Object Id: PV2364
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