Eboroziphius coelops, Whale skull
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Description:
A partial skull with a fragmentary rostrum anterior to the nares with the distal end missing; this is associated with beaked whale (Eboroziphius coelops) remains. Specimen is either Upper Miocene or Upper Pliocene in age.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Wando River Dredge
- Site Number: NH21F
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Ziphiidae
- Genus: Eboroziphius
- Species: Eboroziphius coelops
- Formation: Uncertain
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV2707
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