Progymnodon hilgendorfi, Dental plate
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Description:
The isolated tooth battery from a porcupinefish (Progymnodon hilgendorfi). The specimen possesses a trituration plate with fused teeth stacked with only a slight tilt.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Santee Rediversion
- Site Number: NH30F
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Paleocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Tetraodontiformes
- Family: Diodontidae
- Genus: Progymnodon
- Species: Progymnodon hilgendorfi
- Formation: Williamsburg
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ray-Finned Fish
- Object Id: PV3304
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