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An exceptionally preserved, fossil Cave Bear vertebra (Urusus spelaeus) from Romania. These large bears lived in the mountain caves from central Europe to Russia.  A wonderful story piece from the Ice Age! No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed.

Name: Urusus spelaeus      Age: Late Pleistocene      Location: Carpathian Mountains, Romania

R522 BoP            SIZE: 3-3/4" L x 2-7/8" H

The Kolbay Collection. A Top Quality Protolamna cappettai tooth from Kolbay, W. Kazakhstan. Great color and condition. Roots have a strong lingual protuberance. An excellent Middle Cretaceous (U. Albian - 102 MYA) age tooth. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. You will enjoy the quality of the Kazakh teeth. A special piece from an old collection. Only three specimens.

K1443        SIZE: 11/16"

The Kolbay Collection. A Top Quality Protolamna cappettai tooth from Kolbay, W. Kazakhstan. Great color and condition. Roots have a strong lingual protuberance. An excellent Middle Cretaceous (U. Albian - 102 MYA) age tooth. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. You will enjoy the quality of the Kazakh teeth. A special piece from an old collection. Only three specimens.

K1442        SIZE: 11/16"

The Kolbay Collection. A Top Quality Protolamna cappettai tooth from Kolbay, W. Kazakhstan. Great color and condition. Roots have a strong lingual protuberance. An excellent Middle Cretaceous (U. Albian - 102 MYA) age tooth. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. You will enjoy the quality of the Kazakh teeth. A special piece from an old collection. Only three specimens.

K1441        SIZE: 3/4"

A natural Hoploscaphites brevis ammonite with great preservation of the shell material. The ammonite shell exhibits excellent natural iridescence. A matrix free specimen with a thick profile. This ammonite is from the upper Cretaceous, Pierre Shale Fm. of So. Dakota. Authenticity guaranteed. A fantastic display piece.

SD09        Size: 2"

Note - Adding 6 So. Dakota ammonites in August 2025.  -->  Link to So. Dakota Ammonites

An Extra Large, GEM Hexanchus tooth. This is complete lower jaw tooth from an adult shark. Superb preservation and color. Absolutely matrix free. Nine very sharp, complete primary cusps. A fantastic root - very unique & difficult to find! Perfect tooth. A "blue site" tooth. One of my favorites! A Museum Quality collector's tooth.                  

C402L          Size: 1-11/16"

An Extra Large, GEM Hexanchus tooth. This is complete lower jaw tooth from an adult shark. Superb preservation and color. Absolutely matrix free. Thirteen very sharp, complete primary cusps. A fantastic root - very unique & difficult to find! Perfect tooth. A really big tooth. Another one of my favorites! A Museum Quality collector's tooth.                  

C401L          Size: 1-13/16"

An Ultra Rare Pappocetus lugardi (Andrews, 1920) premolar tooth from Morocco. Pappocetus was in the Protocetidae family of ancient whales . Note - this tooth is a premolar with a natural wear facet and most of the root. This material is a new find and represents one of the earliest transition forms of the whale. Pappocetus is a protocetid (see discussion below) and a large amphibious aquatic carnivore. Pappocetus is also an ancestor of the Basilosaurus. This material is complete and without repair. This is an opportunity to own an incredibly rare specimen from an early evolutionary stage of the modern whale. A fantastic collector's specimen. Authenticity guaranteed.

M2101          Size: 3-5/8"  (straight line)  

Mid. Eocene (Bartonian) age  (40 MYA)

Gueran, (25 km SE of Boujdour), Boujdour Basin

West Sahara, Morocco

Note - adding six early whale teeth in August 2023.   Link to the early whales.

An Extra Large, TOP QUALITY, 3" Carcharodon (Isurus) hastalis tooth with an excellent blue & tan colored crown. A March Fossil of the Month. This is a natural matrix specimen sitting with many whale bones in the original Round Mountain Silt matrix block. The large whale bone at base is 5-3/4" x 3". Plus there are four more whale bones and a shark vertebra exposed in this matrix block. This is a 100% natural matrix piece - nothing added or glued. 100% natural. The root is very well preserved with a nice brown color. Very clean crown. Excellent overall preservation. A fantastic large, quality Mako tooth from the Ernst West quarry which produced the finest teeth with exceptional preservation, high quality, and great color. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. A very special display piece.

ST001  BoP2     SIZE: 2-3/4"      Matrix block size = 6" x 5.5" x 3" height

Note - Adding 20 Sharktooth Hill Hastalis teeth in March 2021.    Link to STH Hastalis teeth.

An incredibly sized, Top Quality Great White shark transition tooth (Carcharodon hubbelli) from Chile. An August 2019 Fossil of the Month. This ULTRA RARE, MONSTER sized Great White tooth measures 2-15/16" - a huge upper jaw PRINCIPAL ANTERIOR tooth. This tooth is an ultra rare Carcharodon hubbelli with small serrations at the base of the cutting edge that disappear towards the tip. High quality enamel! Excellent color. Incredible large "gum line" and a wide root .This was a big shark. Exceptional preservation - note the preserved nutrient hole on the root. Absolutely no repair or restoration. An ultra rare BIG Chilean Great White transition tooth. One of my finest remaining exceptionally large Carcharodon hubbelli tooth. You don't see these big, top quality GW transition teeth any more. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed.

C201T  BoP        Size: 2-15/16"

Note - Adding 7 new Chilean Great White Transition teeth in August 2019    Link to Great White shark teeth

A Top Quality Angustidens - PATHOLOGIC upper jaw anterior tooth from Summerville,  So. Carolina. The tooth has a crown that had an injury that caused it to be quite narrow and bent. High quality enamel. Bourlette is an excellent white color and complete. Very good serrations, slightly worn tip, and baby side cusps. The root is very good and complete. Great "Icy White" color and preservation. No repair or restoration. An Oligocene age tooth from the Chandler Bridge Formation. Authenticity guaranteed. A rare pathologic Angestidens tooth. 

SC526           SIZE: 1-15/16"  

Note - Adding 20 new Angustidens teeth in January 2023.   -->   Link to Angustidens teeth.

A Very Rare, LARGE Top Quality Xamplyodon dentatus tooth from Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada. This is a new genius from the Late Cretaceous deep water Northumberland Formation deposit. A unique species of Hexanchiforme shark. The crown is complete with 3 cusplets (2 reattached / one missing) and the root is nearly complete.  High quality enamel. No repair. A very difficult tooth to locate and an excellent collector's tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. This incredible specimen is from a 20 year old collection. A very special tooth.

CD103             SIZE: 3/4"  Wide 

Note - Adding 64 Hornby Island deep water shark teeth.   ->   Link to all Hornby Island shark teeth.