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"The Best of West Java".  An ultra rare, TOP QUALITY, Megalodon - upper jaw anterior tooth from West Java, Indonesia - new site. A July Fossil of the Month. A "Picture Meg" tooth. This Megalodon has an incredible tan color draped with shades of red-brown & blue and an excellent caramel colored bourlette. Highest quality enamel. Fantastic color! The bourlette is extra large and 100% complete. The serrations are razor sharp and complete with an excellent tip serration. Excellent serrations for a BIG Meg. The root is exceptional - nicely articulated with no shallow pitting which is all to common for these Megs. Miocene Age. No repair or restoration. Authenticity Guaranteed. A rare Indonesian Meg tooth. Note - The tan with red-brown draping is another special color pattern available with the West Java Meg teeth. An exceptional West Java color Meg. Best of the best! Perfect tooth.

IN23 BoP2       Size: 5-1/4"  

Note - Adding 8+ Indonesian Megalodon Teeth in July 2020. -> Link To Indonesian Megs

An EXTRA LARGE, Top Quality fossil Gray Wolf molar (M1) tooth (Canis lupus) from southern Germany. These large wolves lived in the mountain caves from central Europe to Russia during the Ice Age. A prefect tooth. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. You can own a rare and wonderful story piece from the Ice Age! The BEST!  This piece is from an old German collection (1978).

Name: Canis lupus     Age: Late Pleistocene     

Location: Zoolithenhohle (Zoolithen Cave), Bavaria, Germany

R570             SIZE: 1-3/8" 

Note: Added 24 Ice Age / Cave Bear items n October 2022.    Link -> Ice Age Fossils

A very rare, early Macrorhizodus nolfi upper jaw, anterior tooth from Aktulagay, western Kazakhstan. Macrorhizodus nolfi is a Lamnidae shark and an early Mako shark (Isurus praecursor) relative in this early Eocene deposit. These teeth exhibit very good color, gloss, and preservation. A rare, early Eocene Macrorhizodus nolfi tooth. No repair. Authenticity guaranteed. 

K571         SIZE: 1-3/8"

Note - Adding 18 Kazakh Auriculatus or transition teeth in April 2020. -->  Link to Kazakh Auriculatus teeth.

A beautifully prepared pair of Cornuproetus antlatiasus trilobites. An ornate design with long cheek spines! A rarer species. The preparation is German with all original colors and no restoration. Exceptional completeness and preservation. A Middle Devonian (380 mya) trilobite from Djebel Issoumour area, Atlas Mts., Morocco. Authenticity guaranteed.

XM19         Size: 1-1/4"  &  1-1/16"

Note - Posted 16 Moroccan trilobites in May 2024   -->   Link to Moroccan Trilobites

An EXTRA LARGE pyrite replaced Paraspirifer bownockeri brachiopod from the Silica Shale Fm., Sylvania, Ohio. Both valves present  - complete specimen and matrix free. More than 1-1/4"+ thick and heavy! This is a Devonian (395 mya) brachiopod. The big Silica Fm. brachiopod. A fantastic display specimen!

Y001 BoP2         SIZE: 2-1/16"  (largest)

A MUSEUM QUALITY group of three Ophiopetra lithographica, a Brittle Star. The largest is 1" in length. Incredible detail. Excellent preservation and excellent preparation. Matrix size is 3-1/4" x 3". This Brittle star is from Hienheim, Bavaria, Germany. Upper Jurassic (Lower Tithonian). Rare! A top quality collector's piece.

GR104           SIZE: 1"

A fantastic group of four, large well preserved Jurassic brachiopods on matrix from Poix-Terron, France. All fully inflated and complete. Largest specimens are 1-1/4". An excellent collector's piece. This is a Middle Jurassic (Bathonian -165 MMYA) brachiopod. Authenticity guaranteed. A fantastic display piece!

FR323          SIZE: 2-1/2" x 2"

A very rare, early Otodus obliquus anterior tooth from Kzil-Orda Region, Kazakhstan. Otodus obliquus is the ancestor to O. auriculatus (see detailed discussion below) which leads to Megalodon. The bourlette is large and complete. Exhibits no serrations. The starting species to serrated Otodus teeth. These teeth exhibit very good color, gloss, and preservation. A rare, early Eocene (Ypresian) Auriculatus transition tooth. A very challenging tooth to find when building a Megalodon evolutionary set! No repair. Authenticity guaranteed. Note - This western Kazakhstan site is one of the few places in the world where the Otodus obliquus to Otodus auriculatus transition can be found in adjacent early Eocene formation units. 

K561         SIZE: 1-1/16"

Note - Adding 24 Kazakh Auriculatus or transition teeth in July 2024. -->  Link to Kazakh Auriculatus teeth.

A very rare, early Otodus pavlovi upper jaw, lateral tooth from Aktulagay, western Kazakhstan. Otodus pavlovi was the smaller Otodus shark species present in this early Eocene deposit. The side cusps are large and complete. Exhibits no serrations. These teeth exhibit very good color, gloss, and preservation. No repair. Authenticity guaranteed. Perfect tooth.

K531         SIZE: 13/16"

Note - Adding 18 Kazakh Auriculatus or transition teeth in April 2020. -->  Link to Kazakh Auriculatus teeth.

An exceptional pair of EXTRA LARGE Carcharias cuspidata teeth. Upper anterior jaw teeth. F863 has multiple side cusps.

F862 (Left)               SIZE: 1-1/16"

A pair of top quality, EXTRA LARGE ray dermal scutes (barbed type).  These barbed ray dermal scutes are rare!    F932 is a GEM specimen.    F932 Close Up

F932 (Right) SIZE: 1-1/4"

Excellent example of Scoliodon sp.. A rare species!

B393                        SIZE: 1/8"