Geochelone crassiscutata, Tortoise shell
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Description:
One shell fragment associated with tortoise (Geochelone crassiscutata) remains.
Range PV596 through PV621, twenty-six shell fragments.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Testudinidae
- Genus: Geochelone
- Species: Geochelone crassiscutata
- Formation: Undet off-shore unit
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV606
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