Tapirus sp., Tapir tooth
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Description:
One lower tapir (Tapirus sp.) molar (possibly premolar) collected from Edisto beach.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- 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: PV5666
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