TBD, Whale skull elements
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Description:
Cranial elements associated with the remains of a species of xenorophid cetacean. Specimen was collected from a ditch near Eagle Creek road, near the Eagle Creek excavation site, in 1969.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Eagle Creek
- Site Number: NH40Rb
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Xenorophidae
- Genus: Xenorophus
- Species: Xenorophus sloanii
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV542
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