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Tag: scutes and armour

Cidaroida sp. (specimen 03)

Primitive urchin spine (Cidaroida sp.) from the Eocene epoch

Animalia, Cenozoic, Cidaroida, Echinodermata, echinoderms, Echinoidea, Echinozoa, Eocene, Eukarya, Fossils, Palaeogene, Perischoechinoidea, Phanerozoic, scutes and armour, spurs and claws, Unknown Formation, Unknown Location, urchins

Echinoidea sp. (specimen 01)

Urchin spine (Echinoidea sp.) from the Miocene epoch

Animalia, Aurora Fossil Park, Cenozoic, Chesapeake Group, Echinodermata, echinoderms, Echinoidea, Echinoidea sp, Echinozoa, Eukarya, Fossils, Miocene, Neogene, North America, North Carolina, Phanerozoic, scutes and armour, spurs and claws, urchins, USA, Yorktown Formation

Atractosteus spatula (specimens 07-11)

Alligator gar scales (A. spatula) from the Pleistocene epoch

A spatula, Actinopterygii, alligator gar, Animalia, Atractosteus, Cenozoic, Chordata, Eukarya, fish, Florida, Fossils, Lepisosteidae, Lepisosteiformes, Neopterygii, North America, Osteichthyes, Phanerozoic, Pleistocene, Quaternary, ray finned fish, scales, scutes and armour, Unknown Formation, USA

Glyptotherium arizonae (specimen 34)

A glypotdon scute (G. arizonae) from the late Pleistocene epoch

Amniota, Animalia, Cenozoic, Chlamyphoridae, Chordata, Cingulata, Eukarya, Florida, Fossils, G arizonae, glyptodon, glyptodont, Glyptodontinae, Glyptotherium, Mammalia, mammals, North America, Phanerozoic, Pleistocene, Quaternary, scutes and armour, Synapsida (non-mammalian), Tetrapoda, Unknown Formation, USA, Xenarthra

Dasypus bellus (specimens 29-33)

Flex scutes belonging to a beautiful armadillo (D. bellus) from the Pleistocene epoch

Amniota, Animalia, armadillos, beautiful armadillo, Cenozoic, Chordata, Cingulata, D bellus, Dasypodidae, Dasypus, Eukarya, Florida, Fossils, Mammalia, North America, Phanerozoic, Pleistocene, Quaternary, scutes and armour, Synapsida (non-mammalian), Tetrapoda, Unknown Formation, USA, Xenarthra

Desmatosuchus sp. (specimen 18)

Desmatosuchus horn fragment (Desmatosuchus sp.) from the late Triassic period

Aetosauria, Amniota, Animalia, Bull Canyon Formation, Chordata, desmatosuchinae, Desmatosuchus, Desmatosuchus sp, Eukarya, Fossils, Mesozoic, New Mexico, North America, Phanerozoic, reptiles, Reptilia, scutes and armour, spurs and claws, stagonolepididae, Tetrapoda, Triassic, USA

Alligator mississippiensis (specimen 02)

Dermal scute from an American alligator (A. mississippiensis) from the Quaternary period

A mississippiensis, Alligator, Alligatoridae, american alligator, Amniota, Animalia, Archosauria, Cenozoic, Chordata, Crocodilia, crocodilians, Eukarya, Fossils, North America, Phanerozoic, Pseudosuchia, Quaternary, reptiles, Reptilia, scutes and armour, south carolina, Suchia, Tetrapoda, Unknown Formation, USA

Testudines sp. (specimen 01)

Turtle scute fragment (Testudines sp.) from the Miocene epoch

Amniota, Animalia, Aurora Fossil Park, Cenozoic, Chesapeake Group, Chordata, Eukarya, Fossils, Miocene, Neogene, North America, North Carolina, Phanerozoic, reptiles, scutes and armour, Testudines, Testudines sp, Tetrapoda, turtles and tortoises, USA, Yorktown Formation
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