Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth skull
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Description:
A fragment of sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi) maxilla with the 2nd and 3rd molariform teeth collected in 1890.
- Site: SC; Kiawah Phosphate Mine
- Site Number: NH18D
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Species: Eremotherium laurillardi
- Formation: Wando
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV7701
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