TBD, Sea turtle skeletal remains
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Description:
The partial carapace, two articulating vertebrae with four articulating ribs, four other vertibrae, five partial ribs and other associated elements associated with a species of sea turtle that is yet to be determined, possibly a holotype.
There are also elements of shells from three other dermochelyids associated with this specimen.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Trailwood Trailer Pk
- Site Number: NH20O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Dermochelyidae
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV4892
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