Trachemys scripta, Turtle shell
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Description:
One shell fragment associated with pond slider (Trachemys scripta) remains.
*Specimen was previously classified under the name Chrysemys scripta.
- 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: Trachemys
- Species: Trachemys scripta
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV1442
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