Thecachampsa carolinensis, Mandibles
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1978
Description:
Two mandibles associated with gavialoid?crocodilian (Thecachampsa carolinensis) remains as well as isolated teeth. One tooth was photogrammatized to produce a 3D model.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Dorchester Rd # 2
- Site Number: NH40Ra
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Crocodylia
- Family: Gavialidae
- Genus: Thecachampsa
- Species: Thecachampsa carolinensis
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Crocodiles
- Object Id: PV4282
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