TBD, Bird skeletal remains
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Description:
Fifteen bones: mandible, ilium, sternum, rib, humerus, radius, proximal phalanx, associated with sulid remains.
These are the first bird remains from the Pliocene of S.C.; they were found in the center of the ditch below the stream level.
Range PV2818 through PV2837
USGS Quad: Johns Island 7.5'
32'-51.2 N, 80'-02.5 W
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Seaboard Coast Line
- Site Number: NH21P
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pliocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Suliformes
- Family: Sulidae
- Formation: Goose Creek Limestone
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: PV2818
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