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A TOP QUALITY shark vertebra from the Lee Creek mine, Aurora, No. Carolina. Exceptional condition and preservation. Incredibly defined ventral holes. This vertebara is a septate design and resembles a vertebra from the Isurus hastalis (Mako) shark. These vertebrae are rarely found and exceptional specimens are extremely difficult to obtain. These vertebrae were found in Miocene Pungo River Formation (15 million years old). Authenticity guaranteed. 

LC963           SIZE: 2" width x 15/16" length

Note - Adding 9 new Lee Creek teeth vertebrae in March 2023.     Link to Lee Creek Shark vertebra. 

A TOP QUALITY shark vertebra from the Lee Creek mine, Aurora, No. Carolina. Exceptional condition and preservation. Incredibly defined ventral holes. This vertebara is a septate design and resembles a vertebra from the Isurus hastalis (Mako) shark. These vertebrae are rarely found and exceptional specimens are extremely difficult to obtain. These vertebrae were found in Miocene Pungo River Formation (15 million years old). Authenticity guaranteed. 

LC962           SIZE: 2-3/16" width x 15/16" length

Note - Adding 9 new Lee Creek teeth vertebrae in March 2023.     Link to Lee Creek Shark vertebra. 

A TOP QUALITY shark vertebra from the Lee Creek mine, Aurora, No. Carolina. Exceptional condition and preservation. Incredibly defined ventral holes. This vertebara is a septate design and resembles a vertebra from the Isurus hastalis (Mako) shark. These vertebrae are rarely found and exceptional specimens are extremely difficult to obtain. These vertebrae were found in Miocene Pungo River Formation (15 million years old). Authenticity guaranteed. 

LC961           SIZE: 2-3/8" width x 15/16" length

Note - Adding 9 new Lee Creek teeth vertebrae in March 2023.     Link to Lee Creek Shark vertebra. 

An EXTRA LARGE, ultra rare Top Quality Hexanchus griseus tooth - a Sixgill Cow shark, from the Randle's Cliff, Maryland. A June Fossil of the Month. A rare lower jaw symphyseal tooth with 11 primary cusps - male species. This tooth has an excellent brown color with a brown root. Great color and preservation. This is a Miocene age, Calvert Formation tooth. An excellent ultra rare collector's tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. 

MD423         Size: 1"

Note adding 23 Maryland Cow shark teeth in June 2022.  --> Link to Maryland Cow Shark teeth

An Ultra Rare, GEM QUALITY Spinosaurus aegyptiacus foot (pes) claw from the Kem Kem region of Morocco. An October Fossil of the Month. An excellent pes claw with an incredible natural red color and patina. The surface quality is exceptional with no pitting, nicks or wear! Fully inflated. The articulated end is complete. No repair or restoration. An exceptional quality, collector's claw. Authenticity guaranteed. I do not see fine quality Spinosaurus claws very often and this is an exceptional one. Spinosaurus claws with this quality are extremely rare. A Perfect Spinosaurus claw. The best that I have seen!  

M1250h     Size: 2-11/16"  (straightline)  ;  1" (proximal end height)

Note - Adding 6 top quality Spinosaurus claws in October 2025   ->  Link to Spinosaurus fossils

A Top Quality Cretoxyrhina mantelli, an extinct Mackerel (Odontid) shark tooth from Travis Co., Texas. An excellent example of this Late Cretaceous South Bosque Shale (Eagle Ford) Fm. shark. An anterior tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. Perfect tooth. 

T065           SIZE: 1-1/16"

Note - Adding 100+ new Texas shark teeth in October 2021.   Link to Texas shark teeth

A Top Quality Cretoxyrhina mantelli, an extinct Mackerel (Odontid) shark tooth from Travis Co., Texas. An excellent example of this Late Cretaceous South Bosque Shale (Eagle Ford) Fm. shark. An anterior tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. Perfect tooth. 

T064           SIZE: 1-3/16"

Note - Adding 100+ new Texas shark teeth in October 2021.   Link to Texas shark teeth

An LUTRA RARE, Top Quality Hexanchus microdon tooth from the Khouribga phosphate mining area of Morocco. An October Fossil of the Month.  This is a lower jaw symphyseal tooth with eight primary cusps. Great preservation and color. The root is excellent - very unique & difficult to find! Near Perfect tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. This rare piece is from an old collection!    

M655          Size: 3/16"

Note - Adding 14 new Moroccan Hexanchus teeth in October 2023 ->  Link to Hexanchus Teeth 

A very rare, Alopias palatasi shark tooth, an extinct serrated Giant Thresher, from So. Carolina. Nice blue color. Good preservation, but there is erosion. Serrations are visible. These teeth are rarely found and seen. A rare collectors' tooth in high quality condition. Authenticity guaranteed. This is the second rarest of the Giant Thresher species.   

SC849           SIZE: 1-3/8"

Posting 21 Giant Thresher shark teeth in June 2024.    Link to Giant Thresher sharks. 

An ultra rare, Top Quality Hexanchus tusbairicus, Six-gill Cow shark, tooth from Kert, Kazakhstan. This lower jaw tooth has ten primary cusps. An Eocene (Bartonian), Shorym Fm. Cow shark species. The Kazakh Hexanchus tusbairicus teeth are quite rare and excellent examples are hard to locate. Authenticity guaranteed. Note - root has been reattached. Old collection material. The Hexanchus teeth from Kazakhstan shark teeth were never commercially available!

K462          SIZE: 9/16"

Note - Adding 18 Rare Kazakh Hexanchus & Heptranchias  teeth in June 2023.    Kazakhstan Hexanchus teeth Catalog

An ULTRA Rare, TOP QUALITY Parotodus benedeni, the False Mako, tooth from Sharktooth Hill, near Bakersfield, California. This tooth has an excellent tan colored enamel and a very massive root. The crown enamel has very good luster and very sharp edges. Highest quality enamel. Note -  a small (~1/16") tip repair was professionally done. No restoration. An extremely difficult tooth to locate! Authenticity guaranteed. One of the rarest P. benedeni teeth. 

ST403              SIZE: 2-1/4"

Posting two Sharktooth Hill Parotodus benedeni teeth in December 2022.   Link to Sharktooth Hill P. benedeni teeth

A rare LARGE, Otodus obliquus vertebra with very nice color from the Khouribga phosphate mining area of Morocco. Exceptional concentric growth rings well preserved as well as the pair of ventral foramina openings along the side. Very thick at 7/8". Centra faces are very clean and edge structure is very well preserved and clean. Eocene age. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. Exceptional quality. You don't see the large Otodus vertebra any more!  

M1166           SIZE: 3"  (7/8" H)

Note - Adding 6 new Otodus obliquus vertebrae in December 2022.     Link to Otodus vertebrae.