Terrapene carolina putnami, Turtle shell
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Description:
A shell fragment associated with common box turtle (Terrapene carolina putnami) remains.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Emydidae
- Genus: Terrapene
- Species: Terrapene carolina
- Formation: Undet. off-shore unit
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV6728
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