TBD, Whale jawbone
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Description:
A cast of the posterior portions of mandibles with left P4, partial left M1 through M3, and right M3 and partial right M2, associated with the remains of an undescribed archaeocete cetacean.
The cast is from the original specimen USNM 392014. The original specimens were in rock found by the collector in a jetty near Beaufort, Carteret Co., NC.
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Martin Marietta Quarry
- Site Number: NH30H
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Eocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Protocetidae
- Formation: New Bern
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV4895
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