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Bacculites carinatus.jpg
(DSM# 3258/FK123) Extinct genus - Baculites are often preserved with some of their original shell. The shell is beautifully irridescent.

10676 Mortoniceras texanum.jpg
(DSM# 10676) Extinct genus - Mortoniceras is commonly known from sediments of the Western Interior Seaway. The seaway was a wide swath of sea that roughly cut North America in half north to south during the Cretaceous and early Paleocene periods.

10762 Morticeras sp Tombigbee Sand Late Cretaceous.jpg
(DSM# 10672) Extinct genus - Mortoniceras is recognized by its highly ornamented shell. Its closest relatives had more smooth shells.

Mortoniceras sp Tombigbee Sand.jpg
(unnumbered) Extinct genus - Many ammonite specimens found in the Tombigbee sand do not show well preserved suture marks. This makes it more difficult to identify the fossil to species level.

Mortoniceras cf texanum.jpg
(DSM# FK101) Extinct genus of ammonite.

Enchodus petrosus saber toothed herring.jpg
(DSM DH13) Extinct family of large fish sometimes called the "saber-toothed herring". Enchodus were common in Late Cretaceous seas and survived the K-Pg extinction event. They went extinct in the Eocene.

Ischyrhiza mira quest PB Okt.jpg
(DSM# 10723) Extinct family of sawfish. The rostral spines of this fish protrude out the side of a bony structure that juts out from the face.

Hadrosaur.jpg
(DSM#10765) These Hadrosaur specimens were found in marine sediments which suggests the animal died and floated into the ocean before sinking and being preserved.

DSM3348 Bothremys barberi Tombigbee Snd PB Shroback D donor.jpg
(DSM# 10682 - 3348) Sea Turtle Carapace

Mosasaur 2 Fixed background.jpg
(DSM# 10716) Extinct family of predatory marine reptiles. This species of mosasaur could grow up to 60 feet in length.
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