Bootherium bombifrons, Calcaneum
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Description:
A single ankle bone [possibly the left calcaneum] associated with the remains of a helmeted muskox (Bootherium bombifrons).
- Site: SC; Orangeburg Co.; Holnam Quarry
- Site Number: NH34B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Artiodactyla
- Family: Bovidae
- Genus: Bootherium
- Species: Bootherium bombifrons
- Formation: Undetermined
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Artiodactyls
- Object Id: PV7199
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