Fossil Collections (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Fossil Collections

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Fossilized skull parts from ancient elephant relatives in the collections of the Jackson School Museum of Earth History. The skull of a shovel-jawed gomphothere (pictured on bottom) collected by Great Depression-era fossil hunters is still wrapped in its field jacket.

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The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences

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