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(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.

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…

(uncatalogued) This is the lower jaw fragment of a Mosasaur-like creature.

(DSM# CH507) Unidentied fish scales. Possibly preserved in a coprolite (preserved poop).

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