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This drawing will help you learn the different parts of a crinoid. Crinoids often disarticulate (fall apart) when they die so you are most likely to find individual stem pieces or pieces of calyx.

This drawing will help you learn the different parts of a snail. Snails are often perserved in their entirety. High spired snails may be broken in half. Steinkerns (internal molds) are quite common.

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

This drawing will help you learn the different parts of a Trilobite. Trilobites are most can be preserved whole or as single portions of the cephalon thorax or pygidium. Trilobites were arthropods that molted as they grew so not every trilobite…

This drawing will help you learn the different parts of an Ammonoid or Nautiloid.

This drawing will help you learn the different parts of a Brachiopod. (Pictured is a Spiriferid Brachiopod)

(DSM #M261) This extinct genus of Nautilus lived in seas from the Late Jurassic until the Miocene.

(DSM #CH9) Zygorhiza kochii along with Basilosaurus cetoides is the other ancient toothed whale that serves as state fossil of Mississippi.

(unnumbered) Coprolites are trace fossils that can tell us a lot about the diet and physiology of a creature.

(DSM #10716) This Mosasar shoulder blade shows signs of being scavenged by shark after death. This indicates that the creature was on the sea floor for a while after it died.