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Tucson’s Mineral & Fossil Coop rivals any museum fossil display you have ever seen.
Mammoth Herd.
Imagine a massive warehouse with perhaps a dozen of the finest Fossil Dealers in the world. Spectacular fossils everywhere; featuring entire Extinct animals to small trilobites.
Cephalopods & Ammonites
TM&FC is a permanent wholesale vendor of fossils to shops, museums, and collectors around the world. The coop is listed as part of the Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show, and is a popular spot for those that are in the market for the finest fossils on earth. If they do not have it at the coop, they can probably get it. The coop is know for authentic fossils, but I did see a few manufactured fossils there. Not even close to some of the fake stuff some Moroccans sell, and if the fossil is manufactured or altered, the coop will tell you, unlike many of the less credible dealers.
Floor to ceiling fossils!
We saw million dollar specimens, dino eggs at $1000 each, and fishplates in excess of $5000. Flats of small fossils abounded, as well as almost any type of fossil-related home décor.
Megalodon Mouth
Meg teeth-Lower jaw detail
We saw a full Megalodon mouth featuring real meg teeth. It was amazing to see how new sets of teeth were ready to rotate in to replace teeth that grew worn or fell out of these giant prehistoric sharks.
Looks like the wild west, but I'd guess much older.
What a great palm frond wall hanging
The TM&FC is not the only thing we did today, but it deserves to be featured all by its self. You deserve to see it in pictures, although we wish all of you were here with us. One of the most amazing things we have seen here.
Huge Ammonite plate