FOSSILS--- An Ancient Alternative

Recently, I noticed a well-known eBay coin dealer branching off into fossils and I was immediately enthralled and started to browse what was available by other reputable sellers. I thought it might be fun to start a thread posting fossils or any other ancient 'collectibles' that the CT gang has managed to acquire. I've added quite a few 'teeth' and even bone fragments and samples of raptor eggshells. Probably the most interesting (and disgusting LOL) is a variety of coprolite 'specimens'----thankfully, the odor has long since dissipated

So, among the following posts will be examples of fossilized teeth of a T-Rex, Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Megalodon (a HUGE shark that fed on the ancestors of whales) and a Mosasaurus!!! Not to mention a two pound mass of Dino Dung!! Most of these are 'starter' specimens---the teeth ranging in length from fragments of 1/2 to 2 inches----- but the Megalodon, Mosasaur and Spinosaurus teeth are 4-6 inches in length!!

While I intend to keep some of these (I have several more than posted), I'm planning to present a few to the grandkids when they arrive here again this Summer.

Please have fun and feel free to post any fossil, artifact or gemstone etc that you would like to share

Spinosaurus------Larger than a T-Rex....



This is a T-Rex tooth....the one above is a Spinosaurus---even larger than a T-Rex in body size

And here' a Great White tooth for comparison with the Megalodon tooth:

 

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i can't see most of your pictures MZ, is it just me or is something up?

 

Heh, I got a fly from that said dealer.

Also ordered a wasp but he mixed up his inventory # and I got stuck with a fungas gnat.

Here is my fly:


Crappy gnat I didn't order.

 

Me neither.

I love fossils and minerals as well.

 

I tried to fix it... For some reason some of the photos wouldn't post due to an error message.

 

i always wanted to collect amber with bugs inside

 

Well, here's a few of the missing photos:

A mass of Dino Dung, another fossil kit showing the raptor egg-shells and a sole triceratop tooth

 

I have a very small collection of perhaps a dozen fossils (along with a few meteorites), I found that a few of each satisfied my need for REALLY old. With ancient coins on the other hand I want them all!

 

Wow, @Mikey Zee , GREAT fossils, and a super digression from Ancient coins! Ok, you are pardoned for your absence!

 

i can see everything now....that's a nice pile of poop!

 

I really like your fossils.

All I have is a couple of brachiopods, a few crinoid stems and a trilobite. All of them were dug and collected by myself in a nearby quarry.

 

Please don't use these to clone dinosaurs and creat a dangerous theme park with laughably lax safety and security measures.

Because I think that's already been done

 

I used to have fossils, but I donated all my specimens to my old state university because I thought the samples they used in their earth science class were too bland and could use spicing up. I was certainly not impressed as a student by their mediocre collection. Not that mine was that much better, but I had a few things they didn't have.Not a bad gift from an alumni.

However, recently I have been getting the itch to start another fossil collection. Can you guys PM me some good and reliable sources? Its been a good while since I last bought one and I could use some new dealers' names.

 

I was very into fossils in my teens and early 20s (collected at various sites in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania/ Maryland area) and have never entirely lost that interest, even though all of my fossils since then have been purchases. Here's some shark teeth that I found in New Jersey, from Cretaceous-era deposits (same age as Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, and mosasaurs):

A broken but still impressive Tyrannosaurus tooth (that I bought):


And on the other end of the size scale, some teeth from the mammals that were scurrying out of the way of the dinosaurs (the smallest tooth is 4 mm):


And of course everyone loves a good trilobite:

 

Nice, now all you need are some horn corals, trilobites, and brachiopods to start building that ancient seabed fauna from 250+ million years ago.

 

Here are some of my Mazon Creek Coal Pit 11 finds from back in the 1960s. These babies are over 200 million years older than the dinosaurs. Always loved fossils.

 

Fabulous. Coins and fossils are like peas and carrots.

I heard the only really great Sponosaurus skeleton was destroyed in the Berlin Museum during WWII. Not 100% that's true.

 

Thanks to a tip from one of you guys about a dealer, I got back into the fossil game with a modest trilobite fossil. Now all I need to get next are a horn coral fossil, a brachiopod, and a carboniferous crinoid fossil, and maybe a Blastoid fossil, and I'll be well on my way to creating my own pre-triasic seabed fauna collection. I don't know why, but I've always been drawn to seabed fossils pre-250 million years ago, rather than dinosaur fossils, which is what most people like.

Anyway, only 1.2 inches long, but original media and no restoration (which is what matters to me). I hate fossils with restoration. I prefer the original imperfections in the freshly dug up fossils over stuff that has been "touched up" by a "restorer" to make it "look better."

 

Awesome stuff!

Heres a few of mine

 

A few more