Eremotherium sp., Sloth foot bone
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Description:
One foot bone associated with ground sloth (Eremotherium sp.) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV5584
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