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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.

(DSM #EC74) These worm burrows show the tunnelling behavior of one species of marine worms.

(DSM #M410) This Turritellid snail has been completely replaced with the mineral pyrite. Some pyrite nodules have also begun to form and grow.

(DSM #10565) This brachiopod has had its shell partially replaced by the mineral pyrite. Pyrite is also known as fool's gold.