TBD, Whale ear bone
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Description:
Partial auditory bulla from a cetacean along with a partial periotic. It is uncertain if the ear bones are from a Berkeley co. quarry or Orangeburg co. quarry.
- Site: SC; Martin Marietta Quarries
- Site Number: NH18C
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Eocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Protocetidae
- Formation: Santee Limestone/Cross
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV6863
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