from East Coast, North & South Carolina, Miocene Age (5-24 million years old)

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Fossil Porpoise vertebrae is 3" long x 1-1/2" tall

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1-5/8" diameter x 2" tall

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1-3/4" diameter x 2-1/4" tall

(Example photo below, the ones on the left are bulla bones, the ones on the right are periotic bones)

average size 1-1/4" long x 3/4" wide

Miocene Age, North Carolina.  

average 1" long x 3/4" wide

This is a traditional amulet in Japan.  From ancient times, it was collected by fishermen & made into necklaces, as it is believed to protect from typhoon or accident.  Today, it is popular among surfers in Japan for the same reason;  Miocene Age, North Carolina  

$7.00 each

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From the St. John's River, South Carolina, average 3-5 million years old.

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Formation:
Pungo River and Yorktown
Age: late Miocene (average 15 million years old) and
Pliocene (average 4.5 million years old)
Location: Aurora Phosphate Mine (PCS)
Aurora, North Carolina

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Comparison of modern and fossil shark vertebrae from the Aurora museum

Sawfish rostrum (single tooth  of saw) 

and part of sawfish blade ...

Look like shark skin?  It's actually fossilized bark of the 100-foot, scaly barked Lepidodendron tree (photo below), a plant fossil found in coal seams around Tennessee, dated to the Pennsylvanian period (300 million years old).

Below is David who found this specimen in West Virginia on the Ohio River near Harts.  We at first thought it was petrified coral. I think he's pleased with his find!  We were delighted he shared it with us.

  Below are photos of a similar specimen at the Fossil Club show in Whiteville NC

Eremotherium eomigrans, which has been found in 2.2 million year-old sediments in Florida, reached a length of 6 meters and had the bulk of a bull elephant, as tall as 17 feet.  Thick bones & joints, a powerful animal against predators.  Unlike today's sloths, they had 5 fingers, 4 of them claws, the biggest nearly a foot long!

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See Swords & Knives category for marlin bills made into daggers!

Average size 7/8” x 5/8” x 1/2”

Miocene era

(Also known as Sheepshead) Here is a photo of a modern drum fish jaw, the cobblestone-like teeth used to crush oysters.  They also have teeth in their THROATS to continue crushing their food, called Pharyngeal Teeth.

And a photo of a drum fish, they average 30 pounds:

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From Pleistocene Age, found in the Steinhatchee River in Taylor County, Florida.  Vertebrae are from a Lampropeltine snake related to the King snake.

$8 (unless marked otherwise)

Terrestrial Mammal Fossils

Miocene Epoch; Bone Valley Formation, Polk County, Florida, USA

A preserved baby rhino named Sasha was found last September in Russia, read all about it

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0129-meet-sasha-the-worlds-only-baby-woolly-rhino/

 (Glyptotherium floridanum)

Horse Creek, Florida, Pleistocene Era

Below is a photo of a GLYPTODONT at the State Museum in Columbia, SC, and a close up of the bony growths on the back like an alligator, called "scutes"

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Florida River, Pleistocene Era

From the giant armadillo (Holmesina septentrionalis), much larger than today's armaillo.  The giants had 36 teeth, hundreds of bony scutes, both retangular and pentagonal in shape, four toes on front feet, three on the back.  Color is typically black from the carbon & manganese mineral content in the ground where it fossilized. A “Scute” is a section from the external bony or horny plate, enlarged scales covering the exterior of some animals such as turtle, armadillo or the extinct glyptodont. This polygonal-shaped plate is part of the flexible armor of a giant Ice Age armadillo or "pampathere". These creatures migrated to the southeastern United States from Central and South America.

$8.00 each

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Found in the Withlahoochee River (Florida), Pleistocene Era

An Odd-toed Ungulate, semi-aquatic, a hoofed mammal that represents herbivorous animals today.  They are bizarre creatures with heavy pig-like bodies, large odd-toed hoofed feet and long, flexible snouts like an elephant's but shorter.  A large tapir lower tooth resembles that of a small mastodon tooth.  Tapirs today remain unchanged since they first evolved millions of years ago.

$10 each

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Photo of  large section of lower jaw tooth plate (on the floor of the mouth) of a duckbill ray.  The other side has smooth chevrons used as crushing plates.

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Above photo, compliments of the Aurora Fossil Museum in North Carolina detailing stingray barb information.

Link to photos of a 198 pound stingray (look halfway down the page on this link):

http://www.carpecarpio.com:80/freshwaterstingray.html

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Thai Freshwater Stingray, Himantura chaophraya

From legally caught rays for their skin and meat, in Thailand

Note the two edges are like fish hooks, smooth on one side, hooked on the other, so it can slash from the side, or from being poked into something, making a jagged wound coming out:

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Photo of large stingray barb from Australia in our collection (not for sale)...

They are teeny tiny! 

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California and Alaska

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Average 1" long; estimated age:  20,000 years old

50,000 years old, Pleistocene, Suwanee River, Florida

There are three living genera and six species in the Camelidae family. They include the Old World 'true camels', the Dromedary (single-humped) and Bactrian (two-humped) camels, and the four New World llamines; llamas, vicunas, alpacas, and guanacos. Llamines, or llamas, are distinguished from camels in that they lack a hump, they have more of a domed cranium which houses a larger brain then camels, and they have a distinct enamel "buttress" on their molars.

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#F-356-C   6-1/4" x 4", 1/2" thick tapering to an edge, 13.8 oz

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#F-356-D  4-1/2 x 2-3/4", 3/4" thick, 10 oz

#F-356-E  7-1/4 x 3-3/4, 1/2" thick, 11.9 oz

Orthoceras, straight horn shell fossil, a type of cephalopod, Ordovician era, 450 million years old, from Morocco is 1-1/2" long.  Great addition for the new fossil collector!  

The Orthoceras marble fossils are excavated near the town of Erfoud in Southern Morocco, Africa.  Here's a local map of Erfoud:

http://www.multimap.com/wi/32279.htm 

and a picture map of Morocco showing Erfoud:

http://www.matchtours.com/history/map.htm

There are marble factories in Erfoud that polish the gray marble containing the ammonite and orthoceras fossils and cut them into tables, plates and many into display items.

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#F-393  Whale tooth (2-1/4", vertebrae disk pad (1-1/8" diameter); turtle shell 2-1/4 x 1-7/8"; coral (2") and mammal bone 4-1/4"; Lee Creek, NC

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13 small fossil shells in a Riker mount 6-1/4" x 5-1/4" x 3/4" high, glass top.  Comes with a free field guide to fossils & shells. 

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7 fossil shells in a Riker mount 6-1/4" x 5-1/4" x 3/4" high, glass top, comes with a free field guide to fossils & shells.

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6 fossilized branch coral including one matrix, great specimens.  In a Riker mount 6-1/4" x 5-1/4" x 3/4" high, glass top, comes with a free field guide to fossils & shells

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9 fossil shells & branch coral in a Riker mount 6-1/4" x 5-1/4" x 3/4" high, glass top, comes with a free field guide to fossils & shells. 

Check out our small DINOSAUR soapstone carvings:

Soapstone hand carved animals from Peru

AND TO FOSSILIZED POOP OF turtles, fish and dinosaurs, some is even CARVED into art! link here:

 Poop Fossils