TBD, Whale tooth
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Description:
A partial protocetid tooth from a Martin Marietta sand mining quarry. It is uncertain if the tooth is from a Berkeley co. quarry or Orangeburg quarry.
- Site: SC; Martin Marietta Quarries
- Site Number: NH18C
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Eocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Protocetidae
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV6862
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