Canis dirus, Wolf skull
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Description:
A plaster cast of a skull and mandibles associated with dire wolf (Canis dirus) remains. The original was collected from a mining quarry and is housed at the U.S. National Museum (USNM 437648).
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.;Giant Portland Cement
- Site Number: NH40L
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Canidae
- Genus: Canis
- Species: Canis dirus
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Carnivores
- Object Id: PV4817
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