Mylohyus fossilis, Peccary tooth
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Description:
One molar associated with peccary (Mylohyus fossilis) remains, late Pleistocene.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH21Ya
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Artiodactyla
- Family: Tayassuidae
- Genus: Mylohyus
- Species: Mylohyus fossilis
- Formation: Undetermined offshore dep
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Artiodactyls
- Object Id: PV4986
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