Tapirus haysil, Tapir jawbone
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Description:
The right mandible with roots of the first and third lower premolars and the crown of the first and second lower molars, associated with tapir (Tapirus haysil) remains.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Tailrace Canal
- Site Number: NH30Da
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Perissodactyla
- Family: Tapiridae
- Genus: Tapirus
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Perissodactyls
- Object Id: PV2021
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