Chelydra serpentina, Nuchal
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Description:
A right nuchal of a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) found in association with ground sloth material.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Trailwood Trailer Pk
- Site Number: NH20O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Testudinidae
- Genus: Chelydra
- Species: Chelydra serpentina
- Formation: Penholoway
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV5821
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