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A Top Quality Chilean Hexanchus griseus tooth from the Caldera Basin of Chile. This is an upper jaw tooth with seven primary cusps. Excellent preservation and fantastic color. Perfect cusps. Note - there is a small patch at the base of the root. These tooth was found in the Bahia Inglesa Fm. and is late Miocene to early Pliocene age. A scarce collector's tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. Unfortunately there are no more teeth coming from this site. This rare piece is from an old collection!      

C401U          Size: 15/16"  Wide

Note - Adding 18 new Chilean Hexanchus teeth in February 2023 ->  Link to Hexanchus Teeth 

A VERY RARE, Top Quality Hexanchus griseus posterior tooth from the Caldera Basin of Chile. This is complete lower jaw posterior tooth from a large shark. Superb preservation and color. One primary cusp is fully formed. An excellent root - very unique & extremely difficult to find! A Perfect rare collector'stooth. Authenticity guaranteed. Unfortunately there are no more teeth coming from this site. This rare piece is from an old collection. This is one of the few posterior teeth that I have seen - very rare!    

C410L          Size: 7/16"

Note - Adding 18 new Chilean Hexanchus teeth in February 2024 ->  Link to Hexanchus Teeth 

A VERY RARE, Top Quality Hexanchus griseus posterior tooth from the Caldera Basin of Chile. This is complete lower jaw posterior tooth from a large shark. Superb preservation and color. Three primary cusps fully formed. An excellent root - very unique & extremely difficult to find! A Perfect rare collector's tooth. Authenticity guaranteed. Unfortunately there are no more teeth coming from this site. This rare piece is from an old collection. This is one of the few posterior teeth that I have seen - very rare!    

C409L          Size: 9/16"

Note - Adding 18 new Chilean Hexanchus teeth in February 2024 ->  Link to Hexanchus Teeth 

Holmsella sp.; an  Extinct Primitive shark

A very rare shark skin specimen. This matrix piece is covered with dermal denticals. Shark skin impressions with denticals are extremely rare and a Paleozoic age find adds to the rarity.  An exceptional collector's piece from an old collection!

Age: Pennsylvanian (295 mya) ; Dennis Fm.

Location: Hansen Quarry, La Platte, Nebraska

Z144            SIZE: 4" x 2-1/2"

A well prepared, rare spiny Dicranurus monstrosus trilobite on original matrix. Incredible detail and completeness. The huge spines are fully preserved and exposed. A Lower Devonian trilobite (410 mya). A very rare species! A high quality specimen. Collected in Laatchana, Alnif area , Atlas Mts., Morocco.  Authenticity guaranteed. One of my favorite species.

XM46          Size: 2-1/2"

A TOP QUALITY Titanosaur tooth from the Cretaceous Kem Kem deposits of Morocco.  Please note that most of the sauropod teeth are now thought to be Titanosaurid teeth (see discussion below).  A super high quality tooth.  A very small biting surface wear facet for a big tooth. Incredible detail. Great red color. Exceptional condition and preservation. Enamel is fully articulated. No cracks. A fantastic BIG peg-like Titanosaur tooth. No repair. No restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. 

M1291       Size: 1-7/16"  (3/8" W)

Note - Adding 5 new Titanosaur teeth in January 2022.    Link to Rebbachisaurus - Titanosaur teeth.

A very rare, Top Quality Edestus heinrichi shark tooth, from Herrin, Illinois. This is a Paleozoic shark that lived in swamps that our now underground coal deposits. Fantastic enamel quality. Excellent preservation, serrations, and serration detail. The Edestus shark would have an upper and lower tooth whorl that are vertically opposed. Research showed that they could use their opposing teeth in a scissor-like motion or a vertical whipping motion to cut prey. It is the first animal to cut vertically. A very strange looking and unique acting shark. Shark recreation image is credited to Julio Lacerdo. These rare teeth are Pennsylvanian age from Illinois. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. 

I17          SIZE:  1-5/8" w/ root   (1-1/4"crown)

Adding 22 Edestus shark teeth in July 2025.    Link to Edestus shark.

An EXTRA LARGE, TOP QUALITY Eremotherium laurillardoi sloth tooth from an extinct genus of giant ground sloths from Georgia. This sloth is part the family of largest ground sloths and their teeth are described as "brick-like". This tooth has excellent preservation and shows little water wear. It's complete with absolutely no restoration or repair. Weights over 1 pound. A wonderful Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene display piece from Georgia. Authenticity guaranteed. Eremotherium is the Megatherium equivalent for North America.

X712          SIZE: 4-1/4" length x 2" x 1-5/8"

Note – adding 2 Ground Sloth claws & teeth in February 2023.   Link to Sloth fossils

A Top Quality Sevengill Cow shark (Notorhynchus primigenius) - a lower jaw shark tooth from Ursendorf, Germany. A middle Miocene age tooth. An excellent tooth for the rare tooth collector! A partial tooth. No repair or restoration. Authenticity guaranteed. These teeth were found in many closed quarries.

GR407          Size: 1" 

Note - Adding 12 German Cow shark teeth in August 2022 -> Link to German Shark Teeth

A very rare, Top Quality Arrhinoceratops brachypos epoccipital (frill ornament) from the late Cretaceous of northern North America. Arrhinoceratops was a large ceratopsian dinosaur found in the Horseshoe Canyon formation which has three horns and a large frill protecting its neck. This epoccipital has excellent detail preserved and great color / patina. The epoccipitals were triangular bone ornaments that lined the top of the frill.  This epoccipital exhibits incredible detail and is very thick. Complete specimen with minor crack fill. No repair or restoration. Legally collected on private land in Alberta, Canada. Authenticity guaranteed. Disposition number 000028-0000029.

DC67c         SIZE: 3-1/8" Height x 2-1/2" Wide  x 1-1/4" Thick

Note - Adding 17 Canadian bones & teeth in April 2025.    Link to Canadian Dinosaur fossils catalog

An excellent, well preserved Miocene fossil crab, Pinnixia galliheri, from Carmel, California. This crab is 8 million years old and found in the Monterrey Fm. Matrix is 3" x 1.75". Authenicity guaranteed.

X058          SIZE: 1-1/8"

Note - Adding 8 fossil crabs in November 2021.  -->   Link to Fossil Crabs

A HUGE, TOP QUALITY Spinosaurus aegyptiacus tooth from the Kem-Kem region of Morocco. An October Fossil of the Month. High quality enamel with well preserved and pronounced grooves running up the crown. Little crown tip wear for a big tooth. A fantastic deep red patina - rare color for a Spino tooth, and the surface has a drusy crystalline appearance - very nice and very rare. Plus this is an extra thick BIG Spino tooth that would have been easily 1-1/2" thick at the base - see photo. One of the fattest Spino teeth that I have seen. No cracks. No repair and restoration. A very special, big collector's tooth from an extra large Spinosaurus - the 50 foot variety! Plus rare deep red color with a crystalline surface. An essentially PERFECT tooth. You do not see the top quality BIG Spino teeth very often. Authenticity guaranteed. Best of the BEST!

M1227 BoP        Size: 4-1/4"     (1-1/4"+ W)

Note - 15 new Spinosaurus teeth added in October 2018.     Link to Spinosaurus teeth.