

If you are a fieldwork collector and have surplus trilobites or other Palaeozoic fossils for sale or trade, please get in touch. I buy whole collections too!
New stock from 2024 Stuttgart Show now uploading; please visit regularly for new high quality, value for money fossils.
*NEW sub-catagory now open: Rare and Unusual Trilobites for the advanced and specialist collector.
Send me your 'wants list' for future international and UK shows or for my fossil collecting trips in Britain:
robertkennedy8254@gmail.com
Thanks for visiting!
Offered is a very rare, well preserved and displayable 3D item for the specialist fossil Bird collector, a good sized (22.5cm) essentially complete beak of Odontopteryx sp.; 'Pseudo-toothed bird' from the topmost Cretaceous (or lowest Palaeocene?) Khorigba Phosphates of the Ouled Oudnin Basin, Morocco.
Three dimensional examples from this site are increasingly rare to find; the white phosphatized bone material is very good, with many pairs of 'pseudo-teeth' intact; these were acuminate projections along the outer edge of the beak, resembling teeth, and carrying out the same function in feeding at sea.
Approximately the size of a modern albatross, these birds occupied a similar niche over shallow tropical seas close to landmasses.
Matrix free.
Affordable price for such impressive rare and complete bird beak, which may clean/ prepare further with modern air tools.
Although I sell a very wide range of fossils from Pre- Cambrian to Pleistocene age, I specialize in trilobites from all over the globe and in particular, British species.
I collect regularly in the UK, with more than forty five years of fieldwork experience and probably the best working knowledge of British trilobite localities. I have a doctorate and a masters degree in trilobite taxonomy and British Palaeozoic stratigraphy and an Open University degree in Natural Sciences.
If you are an amateur collector, a more serious scientific collector, or an agent for an educational organization ( e.g College, University or Museum), I can supply materials to suit your needs! I also buy whole collections and trade materials too. Visits are welcome,by appointment only.
Linked sites: highly recommended!
BigFossil.co.uk