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FS35 Dolphin Ear Bone

2.5 cm. Long x 1.5 cm. Wide x 1.0 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea, Delphinidae, genus, sp.

Description: The periotic, an inner ear bone, of a dolphin.

Age: Miocene Epoch to Pleistocene

Location Found: United States, Florida, Peace River, FL

Found by: Ed DeRouin

Custodian: fossilweb

Identified by: Ed DeRouin

References: The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida p. 338.