shark teeth dinosaur bones found...

Well, if the dinosaur bones were ONLY 60 million years old, then they might be priceless (the last dinosaurs died about 65 million years ago) I suspect they are much older... and if the bones were found with the sharks teeth, they are probably not from dinosaurs.

While they might have some value to private fossil collectors, I doubt if they would be worth a lot. Any value would depend on what they are, what condition they are in, what information is available about where they were found, and whether or not you can find an interested buyer.

Mike Everhart OCEANS OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGY Adjunct Curator of Paleontology < http://www.oceansofkansas.com > Sternberg Museum of Natural History

at the Sulpher River near Paris, TX. My brother has a large collection of these, has been told by paleontologist at UT Tyler, they are 60 million years old. He would like to know if there is a market for these items. Thank you

I've seen some of this material for sale in Texas. I believe that the bones are mosasaur bones, not dinosaur bones. I've forgotten what formation they come from. The Cretaceous Taylor Group maybe..

I sent the poster an e-mail suggesting some ways he could contact a dealer and warned him that he'll probably get paid just about enough to cover gas and maybe a six pack or two of his favorite beverage.

True. The grunt in the field gets pennies on the dollar for the material. A few of the otherwise unemployed members of the Souix tribe in South Dakota, who through financial desperation, collect for unscrupulous dealers (who are not native American), know this all too well. The high mark-up takes place at the retail end. All-in-all(as some of you know from some of my previous posts), I find the whole 'business' of hocking vert. fossils very distasteful, even if it is conducted legally.

I would like to suggest to him a much better (and vastly more exciting)alternative to peddling scientific material...instead, take the fossils to the nearest university that has a vertebrate paleontology dept. (I suggest Austin), and offer to donate the material. The material may only turn out to be only a bunch of scrap fossil bones (in which case, the material would be returned to him), but there is also the possibility that through his donation, he may be contributing something *new* to science. And you can't put a price tag on new scientific knowledge.

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Phillip

I'd vote for that........

Good afternoon Monica

I assume that your brother is just going into the river areas and picking up nice looking items (fossils). It would be best if your brother joined one the 'Rock' clubs in Texas. The clubs usually have monthly meetings and field trips. Most of the clubs teach the basics of rock, mineral and fossil collecting.

Dallas Paleontological Society http://www.dallaspaleo.org/

The Dallas Gem & Mineral Society http://www.altinet.net/~crodger/

Pleasant Oaks Gem & Mineral Club (Dallas) http://www.pogmc.org/

I assume that you are living close to Dallas. If not, here is a URL that lists other clubs in Texas.

Albert Zabinski - Rock clubs - Texas http://bankswith.apollotrust.com/~zabinski/Texas.html

Regards David Ramalho

You guys are forgetting that the Cretaceous ended approximately 65 mya. The only way for those fossils to be dinosaur or mosasaur bones and be 60 million years old, would be if the Cretaceous lasted 5 million years longer than previously thought. So, no, if they are 60 million years old than they are Cenozoic animals. To be more precise, Early Tertiary.


Well, that's my $0.02 anyway based on the information you gave me.

Hope this helps.....


Post a picture.....I'd love to see it. Then....I might be able to ID them.