Geochelone crassiscutata, Tortoise shell
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Description:
One marginal bone associated with tortoise (Geochelone crassiscutata) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Jeremy Inlet
- Site Number: NH39Ba
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Testudinidae
- Genus: Geochelone
- Species: Geochelone crassiscutata
- Formation: Undetermined offshore bed
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV3460
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