Chrysemys sp., Turtle skeleton
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Description:
The specimen is associated with pond turtle remains and concists of most of the plastron, elements of the anterior portion of the carapace's peripherals, neurals and thirty-one miscellaneous fragments of the carapace and/or plastron.
A mole (Subfamily: Parascalopinae, Species: Parascalops n. sp. ?) humerus was found in association with this turtle specimen.
ct. Chrysemys
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Ft. Dorchester
- Site Number: NH40F
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Emydidae
- Genus: Chrysemys
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV9634
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