Terrapene carolina, Turtle shell
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Description:
One carapace fragment associated with turtle (Terrapene carolina) remains.
-The specimen shows pathologic deformity.
- Site: Edisto Island
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Emyidae
- Genus: Terrapene
- Species: Terrapene carolina
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV2095
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