Alligator mississippiensis, Scute
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Description:
One dermal scute 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
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Crocodiles
- Object Id: PV2496
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