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Hello all, I just wanted ask some advice from more experienced collectors about the direction I should take my collection in. I’m recently married and do cannot afford to by every fossil that takes my fancy anymore. As a result I’ll be saving up my money but I’d also like to take my collecting down a more specific route also. I had been collecting Proboscidean teeth for a while, but my heart is still set on dinosaurs. As I want to focus on a specific group but I want advice on which is the most worth my time. I’ve pretty much excluded theropods for a variety of reasons, mainly their too popular and rarer, which means more out right fakes unless you go hunting yourself. Which of these other groups I was thinking of, which are the better group to focus on. Hadrosaur and Iguanodon species Ceratopsians Sauropods Armoured Dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus. I’m mainly focusing on what group will provide me with a better chance of more genuine fossils from a variety species both on the market and if I ever when hunting in person. I also understand that fossils are rare and appear on the market by chance more then design.

I was wondering if it was possible to determine if you could tell if a tooth came from the top or bottom jaw? If you can is this true for all kinds of animals. I bet you could on a tiger shark because the bottom and top face different directions. Could you tell on a megalodon tooth or a tyrannosaur tooth or any dinosaur tooth for that matter. I don't have any teeth that I need to determine, just a question that popped in my head.

New to this, recently put a house on a large family property that’s on a deep creek bed that runs into Cape Fear River. I have found several large beautiful pieces of petrified wood (cypress I’m assuming) I need help with connecting with people who could use some for research purposes (I will donate).