ChM PV4803 - Ground sloth claw

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ChM PV4803 - Eremotherium sp.

Collected from near Monck’s Corner, SC.

A claw from one of several giant ground sloths in The Charleston Museum collection. The remains of ChM 4803 include a claw, a right clavicle, right humerus, right and left radii, right ulna, right second phalanx of the manus, right third ungual of the manus, partial right femur, right and left fibulae, right and left astragali, right tarsal, right forth metatarsal, right third ungual of the pes, thirteen vertebrae, and portions of several ribs.

Although the Lowcountry of South Carolina was never a frozen habit during the Pleistocene (aka the Ice Age), many well known ice age megafauna would could be found there. This includes mammoths, mastodons, bison, and giant ground sloths.

http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/research/collection/eremotherium-sp-sloth-skeletal-remains/84521CC3-711B-457D-9B83-479668177104