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Hello all! I’ve just gotten home from Tucson, it was a great show. Having taken a 5+ year hiatus on fossil collecting, this was a wonderful return to the community, and getting to talk to some of the kindest and most knowledgeable people in the world. While there was much less as far as fossils go compared to the last time I went, I found some really good things to add to my ever growing collection. Prognathodon Currii Tooth Morocco 2 1/2 in or 6 1/2 cm Dromaeosaurid Tooth (Unknown Species) Tegana Formation, Tafallit Morocco 2 1/2 in or 6 1/2 cm Nanotyrannus Tooth Lance Formation, Weston County Wyoming 0.9 in or 2.3 cm Osteitchthyes Vertebrae Upper Aguja Formation, Texas Carcharadon Hastalis Bakersfield, California 1 5/8 in or 4.3 cm Isurus Planus Bakersfield, California 3/4 in or 1.9 cm Various Pathological Shark Teeth Morocco Titanothere Jaw South Dakota Titanothere Vertebra South Dakota Unknown Vert (found in box marked South American Gar, definitely not that ) Tylosaur Vertebra Upper Cretaceous Tallahatta SE Alabama Massive Phytosaur Vertebra Quay County New Mexico Unknown Mosasaur Premax Tegana Formation, Morocco Partial Unknown (Platecarpus relative?) Mosasaur Skull in Plaster Most of the upper section of the skull, eye socket is partially visible. Very very strange teeth. The guy had thought it was Platecarpus, but he said the teeth were likely too short. Chunk-O-saurs Hell Creek South Dakota Ammonites As always, I’d love identifications on anything I don’t have IDs on. Hope you all have a great rest of your weekend, stay safe!
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Let’s see everyone’s rarest fossil specimen(s). Time for a lot of envy!
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Greetings kind people, Hope you are having a nice day:) There was a similar thread posted around the same topic, but a lot of those websites could not meet all my requirements so I'm here to seek help I'm looking for websites which are: 1) reliable and reputable 2) very inexpensive 3) ship internationally (particularly India) with good packaging and reasonable prices 4) good quality and vast collection 5) can provide most of my requirements in a single order(since I'll be shipping it to India, it would be economical to order everything from single website to cut down on transportation costs). I'll take down the post in case of violations of the guidelines. Please do let me know. Thanks in advance:)
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Spent a few hours today at the annual London Rock and Mineral show. Most of the vendors specialize in minerals and jewellery, but a few had some fossils. I am not sure about posting images from the specific vendor tables without their permission, but the fossils were mostly what one would expect at shows like these: polished Moroccan orthocerids, Madagascaran ammonites, the usual trilobites, and the GR fish plates. Just a glance down one of the aisles: Although I have a digital copy of Trilobites of New York, I'm still a bibliophile of the first water, and sometimes nothing quite beats having a physical book in hand. This is an unopened copy I bought for a very fair price: But perhaps the highlight of the visit was talking to two vendors who were also local collectors. We talked about our collecting spots and traded a few stories. One of the vendors actually knew Charlie Southworth personally. Of course, after spending some time in conversation it only felt appropriate to make a purchase. So my only fossil purchase was this cephalon of Eldredgeops iowensis southworthi (since we were, after all, talking about Charlie Southworth!). Although just a cephalon, the size is impressive. So, not a "major" shopping excursion, but pleasant. Definitely the best part was the conversation with the veteran collectors, swapping names (of fossils, sites, and collectors we know). Good to get out of the house on this snowy day, and even better to return home for some hearty, homemade lentil soup.
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