FMNH 98096

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  • 98096
    Creator: Rebecca A. Banasiak : Field Museum of Natural History - Zoology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: FMNH 98096 Orycteropus afer; dorsal view of the mandible.
  • 98096
    Creator: Rebecca A. Banasiak : Field Museum of Natural History - Zoology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: FMNH 98096 Orycteropus afer; dorsal view of the cranium.
  • 98096
    Creator: Rebecca A. Banasiak : Field Museum of Natural History - Zoology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: FMNH 98096 Orycteropus afer; lateral view of the skull.
  • 98096
    Creator: Rebecca A. Banasiak : Field Museum of Natural History - Zoology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: FMNH 98096 Orycteropus afer; ventral view of the cranium.
FM Catalog: Mammals
Catalog Subset: Specimen
Scientific Name: Orycteropus afer
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Tubulidentata
Family: Orycteropodidae
Genus: Orycteropus
Species: afer
Field #: 27774
Collector: National Museum of Southern Rhodesia
Collection No.: 9819
Geography: Africa, Zimbabwe, North Matabeland, Lake Kariba on Zambezi River
DWc Country: Zimbabwe
Date Collected: 13 Jul 1959
Preparations: skin,skull
Tissue Available?: No
Co-ordinates Available?: No
Sex: Male
Sex: Male
EMu IRN: 2596964
OccurenceID: a26087c7-b44d-41dc-b621-1d7a82b7a19a
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