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(unnumbered) Compression fossils most often form in sedimentary rocks called shales which form in the bottom of lake or sea beds. The same fossil can be seen in both the part and counterpart but different features are often preserved on both sides.…

(DSM #M76 and #M172) These interal casts show the shape of the inside of a cavity such as a shell or brain. When you have an imprint of the outside of an organism it is calleda mold.

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

(DSM #3055) This horse tooth has tooth marks from a rodent that gnawed on the tooth after the horse died. Rodents chew on hard items to keep their teeth healthy.

(DSM #3054) Horse molars are very long with a flat chewing surface.

Dunn-Seiler Museum sticker by Amy Moe-Hoffman from January 2022

Photograph of Dr. Paul Heaney Dunn, Head of the Department of Geology and Geography at Mississippi State from 1934-1962

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.

(DSM# 1871) This crab was found near the Mississippi State University campus and has not yet been identified to Genus or species level.