Tursiops truncatus, Whale tooth
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Description:
A tooth fragment associated with common bottlenose dolphin [cf. T. truncatus] remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Delphinidae
- Genus: Tursiops
- Species: Tursiops truncatus
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV2434
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