TBD, Dugong rib
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Description:
One large rib fragment associated with dugong remains. The specimen is from an extremely large dugong; the specimen is quite worn and obviously reworked, possibly from the Upper Miocene beds as suggested by presence of Carcharodon megalodon teeth (PV2823) in this unit.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Seaboard Coast Line
- Site Number: NH21P
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pliocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Sirenia
- Family: Dugongidae
- Formation: Goose Creek (lag deposit)
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Dugongs and Manatees
- Object Id: PV2819
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