Physeter macrocephalus, Whale tooth
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Description:
One tooth associated with sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) remains.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; General Dynamics
- Site Number: NH30Ke
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Physeteridae
- Genus: Physeter
- Species: Physeter macrocephalus
- Formation: Wando
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV7625
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