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Until recently, I've never actually gotten anything via TFF, but now I've aquired my first ever TFF fossils, Courtesy for @Ash for offering me the bargain for Niobrara fish bones (and miocene shark teeth), and even more for @Nimravis for generously offering to give me some extras he didnt need from an auction without any charge. So, here is my new acquisitions thanks to those guys. Canadian Baculites. For some reason, my dad thought these were disgusting lol For some reason I really like the shape of one end in the baculite below. It looks so squishy. Pleistocene American Alligator teeth (assuming no other species of alligator existed in florida at the time) Theres some metallic dust in the pulp cavity. I first thought that was gold dust lol Second gator tooth Gator scute from the same location as the teeth I really like this one. A partial heteromorph ammonite, which as one author puts it "the rarest and most bizarre of ammonites" Assorted shark teeth from the southeast US coast, most are modern fauna. Fish jaw from Niobrara Kansas. Troy said that its probably from a barracuda-like fish, which makes me guess it could be a Cimolichthys, but I'll make confirmation Ids later. Fish tail also from Niobrara Kansas. Unrelated to the jaw above. Two sets of fish vertebrate from Niobrara Kansas associated with its row, with the jaw and tail on the bottom. I know that the jaw is probably upside-down, but I purposely put it like that for balance. Alight, heres the fossils in the current setup on the second shelf until I get myself to go order some riker mounts. The glass is quite dirty, which is because I was too lazy to clean off the rock particles from my other fossils (I used to have all of them in this display, but it was taken down by an earthquake and I really haven't put all of them up every since except for a few really good ones) Oh, and if you want to see my top shelf, here it is. Its all of my older fossils which I like the most. From left-to-right, theres a 3 inch pacific meg, a Knightia fossil with a grade so bad that the scattered bones make it resemble more like a shrimp than a fish, a set of morroccan fish-and-reptile teeth, a 4-inch meg from south carolina, a great white tooth from florida, a Pliosaurus andrewsi tooth (which is by far my favorite because of the fact that pliosaur teeth are never in the market, much less a rarer species), an unidentified mosasaur jaw partial from morocco, a basilosaurid tooth also from morrocco (This is by far the single most expensive fossil I've ever gotten, 200+ bucks for a small tooth, though I've specifically wanted a premolar/molar. The id is still indeterminable, but I'll assume it as Basilosaurus cf. isis for now, and trust the seller's id for this), a large partial mosasaur jaw with tooth in matrix from morrocco as well, some fern from mazon creek (the one right of it is associated. It used to be one giant nodule until it broke apart during the earthquake. At least it reveals the fern now), a tyrannosaur tooth from two-medicine formation, pyritized ammonites, a smaller fern from illinois, and a large trilobite (not an expert on invertebrates, but any id would be greatly appreciated).