Geochelone sp., Tortoise shell
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Description:
One peripheral associated with tortoise (Geochelone sp.) remains.
Previously indentified as Testudo by W. Auffenberg, 1955.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Testudinidae
- Genus: Geochelone
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV2457
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