Collecting Fossils with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History

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Research Fieldwork Prep Lab Display Glossary Credits

Topographic maps: These maps provide a picture of what the actual land looks like; from these maps hills, mountains, arroyos, and plains can all be discerned.

Often paleontologists will take copies of these maps into the field in order to orient themselves and note where fossils come from.