Prototherium sp., Dugong tooth
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Description:
A cast of a fragment of the right maxilla with the second and third molars, associated with dugong (Prototherium sp.) remains. The specimen is a cast of a USNM specimen.
[Halitherium = nomen dubium]
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Wando Terminal Spoil
- Site Number: NH20G
- Era: Cenozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Genus: Prototherium
- Formation: Undetermined
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV4890
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