TBD, Whale rib
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Description:
A large, flat bone, [possibly] a portion of an antierior rib which has some pathological deformation, associated with the remains of a baleen whale.
- Site: SC; Orangeburg Co.; Martin Marietta Quar
- Site Number: NH34A
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pliocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Cetotheriidae
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV8612
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