Graham County Historical Society

Safford, Arizona

Click each thumbnail image for larger view. 1 Students at the fossil display	1	2	2 Detail of display cabinet. On the left is a lower horse leg (cannon) bone eroding out of diatomaceous earth, and on the right is a cast of a lower horse leg set on a slab of real rock containing hoof prints of a small, three-toed horse.
3 Right side of room displaying, from right to left, camel tracks, duck/goose tracks, giant land tortoise, and glyptodont shell.	3	4	4 Close-up of giant land tortoise (Hesperotestudo sp.). The shell is 28 inches long.
5 Close-up of a nearly complete glyptodont shell (Glyptotherium texanum). Glyptodonts, close cousins of armadillos, are the only mammal known to have a hard, inflexible, turtle-like shell; they became extinct at the end of the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.	5	6	6 Close-up of fossil gopher tortoise (Gopherus sp.) and mural showing glyptodonts and horses in foreground, and camels and mastodonts in the background.
7 Left side of room showing mammoth and mastodont material, with large deer (or elk) antler in background. Mammoth skull in foreground still in its field jacket is the most recent addition to the display.	7	8	8 Close-up of proboscidian (elephant) material, showing a mammoth skull, lower jaw, piece of tusk and leg bone.