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Mosasaur skull diagram
Skull reconstruction of the Mosasaur. See if you can pick out the skull portions that we have shown from our collections.
Monocot leaf (partial) Grass-like flowering plant
(unnumbered)
Map of North America during the Cretaceous showing the Western Interior Seaway and the Mississippi Embayment.
This map shows which parts of North America were inundated with water during the Cretaceous Period.
Mammuthus sp. (Brooks 1828) Partial Mammoth tooth
(no number) Mammoth teeth are much more flattened than those of the Mastodon.
Mammut sp. (Blumenbach 1799) Young mastodon jaw fragment with tooth
(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.
Mammut sp. (Blumenbach 1799) Partial Mastodon Tusk
(DSM #FQP107)
Mammut sp. (Blumenbach 1799) Mastodon Tooth fragments
(DSM #CH551) It is relatively rare to find a whole mastodon tooth, but fragments of teeth can be regularly found. Often time the cusps are preserved because they are covered in extremely hard enamel.
Mammut sp. (Blumenbach 1799) Mastodon Tooth
(no number) Mastodon teeth have higher pointier cusps than mammoth teeth.