Here's just a small sample of the fossils we have available.  These came from Aurora, North Carolina 

Ancestor to the manatee, one of the first fossil animals in Florida, dating back to the Pleistocene era, 10,000 to 1.1 million years ago.  Dugongs had tails like dolphins, modern manatee are rounded.  These fossils were found in the Peace and Santa Fe Rivers in Florida.

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are similar to human molars, used only for eating vegetation.  Called "spit teeth", as they wear down and are shed and replaced by new ones.  They average 5/8" across, found in Florida in the Santa Fe River. 

$10 ea.

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9" long x 1-3/8" wide x 1-1/4" deep, 11.3 ounces

$25  SOLD

23 to 5 million years old (Miocene age), Florida

(Dermal scutes are round or rectangular plates with a vertical ridge and are found under the skin of the gator. They form parallel ridges along the animal's back).  See also Gators page 5 for modern scutes!

  

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Gator scute is 1-1/8 x 1-1/8" 

(Alligator Mississippiensis)

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3" across x 2-3/4" tall

NO, this is NOT an Oreo-eating dinosaur!  

It is a short-legged, blunt-headed herbivore with 5 toes on each front foot, and 4 on each rear foot.   This mammal lived 30-35 million years ago in the Late Oligocene era.  From the White River Formation, Pennington County, South Dakota.

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Three pieces

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(disregard the placard behind it in the1st photo)

Tibia end, Pleistocene epoch, 100,000 to 1.8 million years old.  Peace River, Florida.  Measures 9-1/4" long x 3" at widest point.

(Antiquis occidentalis)

Average 2" long, from the Brule Formation, Chadron, Nebraska.  Pleistocene age, 100,000 to 1.8 million years old

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#F-304-B  Leg bone, 10" long x 1-7/8" widest x 1-1/4" deep, 9.5 ounces

#F-304-C  Vertebrae, 16" long x 5" wide x 3" high  

#F-304-E  Leg bone, 9-1/2" long x 3" widest x 2-3/4" deepest, 1 pound, 2 ounces

#F-304-F  Leg socket, 3-3/4" long x 2-3/4" wide x 2-3/8" deep, 7 ounces

#F-304-G  Leg socket, 2-1/4" long x 2-3/4" wide x 2-1/2" deep, 4 ounces

#F-304-I  Leg bone, 5-3/4" long x 3" wide x 2-1/2" deep, 1 pound 2 ounces

#F-304-J  Leg bone, 6" long x 3-3/4" wide x 2-1/2" deep, 1 pounds 3 ounces

Equus, Pleistocene, 2 million years old, Florida

Similar to modern horse, uppers are square on the chewing surface, rectangular on the lower teeth.

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2-5/8" long x 1-1/8" Wide X 3/4" thick

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2-1/4" long x 7/8" wide x 7/8" thick

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2-3/4" long x 1" wide x 5/8" thick

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2-7/8" long x 1-1/4" wide x 1" thick

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2-7/8" long x 7/8" wide x 3/4" thick

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2-7/8" long x 1" wide x 3/4" thick

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3" long x 1-1/4" wide x 1" thick

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3-1/8" long x 1" wide x 7/8" thick

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3-3/8" long x 1-1/8" wide x 5/8" thick

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3-3/4" long x 1-1/4" wide x 1" thick

#F-306-1  Horse leg bones (2 pieces not associated), 1st is 8" long x 1-3/4" wide x 1" deep and 2nd is 5-1/2" long x 1-5/8" wide x 1-5/8" deep, 1 pound 4 ounces

#F-306-3  Bone socket, 2-1/2" long x 2-3/8" wide x 1-1/4" deep

#F-306-4  Bone socket, 2-3/4" long x 2-3/4" wide x 2-1/8" deep

Average 5 to a set, average 1/2 to 7/8" size

Rivers of Florida, Pleistocene Age

$6 each unless otherwise marked

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1-7/8 x 1-3/4" x 1/2" thick

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2-1/4 x 1-1/4 x 5/16" thick

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2 x 1-3/4 x 1/2" thick

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#F-308-S    set of 2

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 "Sword-ray" FISH

The LARGEST bony fish that ever lived, it grew up to 18' long, distantly related to tarpon.  It had a voracious appetite, swallowed fish whole, some six feet or more in length.  There are fossils excavated showing a "fish within the fish" such as this fossil found in Kansas in 1982.  The fish it swallowed was 6 feet long!

See Fossils Page 11 for more photos of these awesome fish

(Cretaceous Period, from Gove County, Kansas Formation)

$18 each

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Scaldicetus species

Pliocene to Miocene Era (1.8 to 25 million years old), found in North & South Carolina

Wide strips of baleen (which is made from keratin, the same material your fingernails or horses hooves are made of) with fringes of hair hang down from the inside of the Baleen Whale's mouth like strips in a car wash.  Plankton catch on the hairs which are then licked off by the whale's tongue and swallowed. (See Alaska page 5 under BALEEN for etchings on baleen available for sale, by Alaskan Native Eskimo):

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From South Carolina rivers (St. John's, St. Mary's or Cooper River) near Charleston SC unless otherwise indicated

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2" long x 3-1/4" wide x 1-1/2" deep

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2" long x 4-3/4" wide x 4" deep

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3" diameter

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3" diameter

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3-1/4" diameter

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3" diameter

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3" diameter

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2-1/4" diameter

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2-3/8" diameter

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2-3/4" long x3-1/4" wide x 1-1/4" deep

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4-1/4" long x 2-1/4" wide x 2" deep

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4-1/4" long x 2-3/4" wide x 1-1/8" deep

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4-1/2" long x 2-7/8" wide x 1-3/4" deep

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4" long x 1-1/4" wide x 7/8" deep

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6" long x 2-1/2" wide x 1-1/8" deep (posterior process, attaches to back part of the bulla ear bone)

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4-1/4" long x 2-1/4" wide x 1-1/8" deep (posterior process, attaches to back part of the bulla ear bone)

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4-3/4" long x 2" wide x 1" deep (posterior process, attaches to back part of the bulla ear bone)

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6" long x 2-1/2" wide x 1" deep (posterior process, attaches to back part of the bulla ear bone)

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3-1/2" long x 3" wide x 1-3/4" deep

#F-319-50  Scapula, 8-3/4" long x 5" widest x 2" deep

#F-319-60  Flipper bone, 5-5/8" long x 1-1/2" wide x 7/8" deep

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Back bone displayed by Powell at the Aurora Fossil club show (below) from the Calvert Formation along the Potomac River in VA; a 14 foot whale, it took 6 months to prepare/stabilize the backbone.

Primitive toothed whale dentition (Basilosauridae sp., South Carolina) at Aurora Fossil Museum (NC)

Whale vertebrae and other vertebrae on display at the museum (left) and whale disk pad shown above vertebrae (right)

Whale baleen layers as it is in the whale's mouth (left) and young baleen (right)

EDUCATIONAL life-sized BLUE WHALE 

NAMED WENDI

5/17/03.  We are at the Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach SC where teacher Art Hawley (right) inspired the National Science Honor Society students to build a life-size blue whale (an endangered species, the numbers have gone from 200,000 in 1900 to about 10,000 now) to emphasize the size of the largest animal in the world (100 feet long!).  They laid out and taped together heavy plastic with packing tape, named it Wendi the Whale, and attached a rented blower at the tail end to inflate it!  Duct tape defines the designs for the mouth and eyes on the sides.  A great way to heighten awareness of our environment!  Our hats are off to you, Art, and your students!

Here three students from the Honor Society are ready to explain more details about Wendi the Whale, they're sitting inside the MOUTH of it!  Glenn is standing in the midsection inside the whale in the picture on the right - Glenn, there IS a light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel is not what you THINK!  Pretend you're Jonah, and fill in the blanks....