Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth vertebra
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Description:
A vertebral neural arch with spinous process associated with sloth remains collected from the Cooper River in 1880.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Cooper River
- Site Number: NH30K
- 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: PV7691
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