Eboroziphius coelops, Whale skull
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Description:
A partial skull with the right half of the rostrum anterior to the nares, associated with beaked whale (Eboroziphius coelops) remains. Specimen possibly reworked from Upper Miocene - Upper Pliocene beds.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Ashley Phos. Bed
- Site Number: NH20Ma
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Miocene
- 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: PV2709
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