Sphoeroides hyperostosus, Preopercle
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Summer 199
Description:
The left preopercle associated with pufferfish (Sphoeroides hyperostosus) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto River
- Site Number: NH39A
- Dimensions: D-24.501 cm
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pliocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Tetraodontiformes
- Family: Tetraodontidae
- Genus: Sphoeroides
- Species: Sphoeroides hyperostosus
- Formation: Raysor or Goose Creek
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ray-Finned Fish
- Object Id: PV5043
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