Tapirus sp., Tapir tooth
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Description:
One incisor associated with tapir (Tapirus sp.) remains.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Runnymeade Plant.
- Site Number: NH20D
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Perissodactyla
- Family: Tapiridae
- Genus: Tapirus
- Formation: Uncertain
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Perissodactyls
- Object Id: PV2563
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