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(DSM #FQP106) This fossil is exceptional because it shows a partial jaw of a baby mastodon. The molar preserved within still has the high cusps because the animal was not alive long enough for the teeth to be worn down from eating.

(no number) Mammoth teeth are much more flattened than those of the Mastodon.

This map shows which parts of North America were inundated with water during the Cretaceous Period.

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Skull reconstruction of the Mosasaur. See if you can pick out the skull portions that we have shown from our collections.

Mr. Franklin Carl Seiler was Instructor of Geology, Department of Geology and Geography from 1937-1944.

(DSM #1658)

(no number) Deer of the Pleistocene were very similar to the white tailed deer that are still common in North and Central America today.

(DSM# 10760) This is one of many fossils in the Dunn-Seiler collection that have not been identified beyond the family level.

(DSM# 10768) Mississippi is home to the largest deposits of petrified wood east of the Mississippi.