Alligator mississippiensis, Osteoderms
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Description:
One fragment of dermal armor associated with American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Crocodylia
- Family: Alligatoridae
- Genus: Alligator
- Species: Alligator mississippiensis
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Crocodiles
- Object Id: PV5644
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