Dorudon serratus, Whale skeletal remains
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Description:
The centrum of a cervical vertebra, a fragment of a mandible, the lower fourth premolar and a plaster cast, and a fragment of a tooth. The specimen is associated with the remains of an archaeocete cetacean (Dorudon serratus).
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.;Chandler Bridge Creek
- Site Number: NH40Cc
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Eocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Basilosauridae
- Genus: Dorudon
- Species: Dorudon serratus
- Formation: Cooper Marl
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV2029
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