Terrapene carolina, Turtle shell
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Description:
Two shell fragments associated with box turtle (Terrapene carolina) remains. These specimens were collected from the inland waterway in Myrtle Beach.
- Site: SC; Horry Co.; Myrtle Beach
- Site Number: NH22A
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Emydidae
- Genus: Terrapene
- Species: Terrapene carolina
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV1920
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