TBD, Whale skull
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Description:
A partial skull, the rostrum anterior to the prenarial region, associated with beaked whale remains; it is missing the distal half and supraorbital processes. Specimen possibly reworked from Upper Miocene - Upper Pliocene beds.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Ashley Phos. Bed
- Site Number: NH20Ma
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Ziphiidae
- Formation: Uncertain
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV2727
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