Trachemys scripta, Turtle shell
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Description:
One shell fragment associated with turtle (Trachemys scripta; pond slider) remains.
Range PV1443 through PV1450, eight shell fragments.
- 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: PV1445
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