Zygorhiza kochii, Whale tooth
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Description:
One premolar associated with whale remains collected in August 1972. This premolar was found at a Giant Portland Cement Co. mining quarry.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.;Giant Portland Cement
- Site Number: NH40L
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Eocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Cetacea
- Family: Basilosauridae
- Genus: Zygorhiza
- Species: Zygorhiza kochii
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Whales and Dolphins
- Object Id: PV2030
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