The chalk and marl of eastern Mississippi hold the bones of an ancient sea: the state fossil is Basilosaurus, a sixty-foot serpent-shaped early whale that swam here when Mississippi was seafloor. The creeks and cuts of the black-belt prairie give up its vertebrae along with shark teeth, sea urchins and ammonites. Get permission for private land and know the rules on vertebrate fossils.
Fossils, Basilosaurus
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