Major Fossil Localities
Use locality and formation as evidence while respecting legal, ethical, and site-protection obligations.
A place name should be specific enough to test.
Country alone is rarely sufficient. Good provenance may include region, county, quarry, formation, member, horizon, collector, date, and legal source.
Moroccan Fossils
Commercially abundant trilobites, ammonites, orthoconic nautiloids, shark teeth, dinosaur teeth, fish, and decorative fossil limestone.
Open guide →Madagascar Fossils
Polished ammonites, iridescent ammonites, petrified wood, marine fossils, and vertebrate material appear frequently in the collector market.
Open guide →Green River Formation Fossils
Eocene lake deposits famous for fish, plants, insects, birds, reptiles, and exceptionally fine lamination.
Open guide →Solnhofen Limestone Fossils
Jurassic lagoonal limestones preserve fish, crustaceans, insects, plants, and rare vertebrates in fine detail.
Open guide →Kem Kem Group Fossils
Cretaceous river deposits produce abundant isolated vertebrate teeth and bones, often sold under broad commercial labels.
Open guide →Hell Creek Formation Fossils
Latest Cretaceous terrestrial deposits famous for dinosaurs, plants, turtles, crocodilians, fish, and mammals.
Open guide →Lyme Regis & Jurassic Coast Fossils
Jurassic marine cliffs yield ammonites, belemnites, fish, ichthyosaur material, and other fossils under local collecting guidance.
Open guide →Florida Fossil Shark Teeth
Rivers, phosphate deposits, and beaches produce shark teeth, dugong material, horse teeth, and other Neogene and Pleistocene fossils.
Open guide →Mazon Creek Fossils
Carboniferous ironstone concretions preserve plants, invertebrates, fish, and rare soft-bodied organisms.
Open guide →Western Interior Seaway Fossils
Cretaceous marine rocks contain ammonites, inoceramids, fish, sharks, marine reptiles, and trace fossils across many formations.
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