Alligator sp., Alligator skull fragment
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Description:
One alligator (Alligator sp.) skull fragment, specifically the portion of the maxilla which would have held teeth.
- 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
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Crocodiles
- Object Id: PV5670
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