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Hi all, My mom was going through some old things in the basement and found this. She said she found it when she was a kid, so I'm making assumptions it was found in Ellis County, Kansas. I've found several sharks teeth in the area which I believe are primarily Cretoxyrhina and Squalicorax based on location and pictures on this sites like these. My very amateur guess is centrum from one of those two, but am curious as to your thoughts. Thanks

I put off writing this report until I had some photos taken of the some of the specimens I bought. A friend took some time from this workday last week and photographed them for me. I flew out Jan 29 arriving in Phoenix in the afternoon. A friend picked me up at the airport and we drove to Tucson (approx. 1 1/2 - 2 hour drive). We had just enough time to check out the 22nd Street show before it closed for the day, having been the second day of that show). One of the dealers had a decent amount of Lee Creek fossils. I was surprised at the size of the Squalodon incisors. On my first trip to Tucson back in 1988 I had bought a smaller one. it's about three inches long but missing a little of the root tip. At this show the incisors looked to be about 5 inches long. The dealer also had some megalodon and Parotodus teeth from Lee Creek. They were all in a case so you could not see they from every angle but they were small-to-medium-sized. He still had them all when I came back to the show two days later. He had some medium-sized great whites from an undetermined California site (maybe that Pismo site because they were light-colored). They looked nice but they were expensive for their sizes. He also had some giant Striatolamia teeth from Kazakhstan. I didn't have a ruler with me but they appeared to be over 2 inches. The next day, I went to another show that was really just a loose collection of tents not too far from the Innsuites but would be a long walk from there. Most of the tents are Moroccan dealers. It's a good place to check out. An American collector was haggling hard for a Notidanodon tooth he liked. He bought a few other things and did end up getting the Notidanodon for the price he wanted. I talked to him for a few minutes after he mentioned he occasionally finds Notidanodon partials at Liverpool Point and knew of a complete tooth being found as well. Another dealer had some matrix pieces from a "new" Moroccan site - different sea urchins than I have seen from there before. He said they were Miocene. One of the clusters had a partial shark tooth on it - rather large sand tiger. Later, tagging along with friends, I poked around the Days Inn which is not known as a hotbed of fossil selling activity. I ran across a Texas dealer who had some Lee Creek teeth - mostly tigers and makos but he also had some Texas teeth including some of that South Sulphur River stuff (Maastrictian, Kemp Clay) that was hot about 15 years ago - all the oddball micros. He told me it was all part of a collection he bought and he had binders full of pages of coin holders with small Cretalamna and Scapanorhynchus teeth. I looked through what was there but didn't see any of the rare teeth. I have what I want of that anyway. He had some mosasaur bones but wanted a lot for them and then I looked at a small Riker mount with Ischyrhiza mira rostral spines in it. There were a few nice ones including a couple almost 2 inches long. I couldn't recall seeing them for sale around that size. I thought about it and then bought one of the larger ones. It's 1 13/16" and had enough water-wear to polish it but not enough to damage it. The root is dark brown with a black cap and grayish tip and light-colored striations so it's a nice looking specimen. I really don't know the market on these but they are hardly ever for sale because the people who find them tend to hang onto anything this nice. The dealer said the bigger ones are usually broken and that he had some "heartbreakers" which would have been over 2 1/4" when they were complete. In any case the one I bought is easily the largest I. mira spine in my collection.