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These Fossil Shark Teeth are from the Phosphate Mines of Chile and are some of the most beautiful and stable teeth found.
The Desert teeth are a different story. Desert teeth are particularly noted for their rotten, chalk-like roots that literally fall apart when picked up. MegMawL does not sell teeth from the Atacama Desert of Chile. Our experience is that these teeth are generally rotten and environmentally damaged to the point that the Chilean peasant has to pour a "stablizer" like SuperGlue® on these teeth BEFORE they touch them.
MegMawL does not sell South American teeth with MATRIX attached. Ever wonder why some Chilean teeth are for sale with the "Bonus" of having matrix stuck on one side? It's because the finder poured stablizer all over the tooth and some ran down into the ground underneath the tooth. The excess glue attaches the dirt and rocks underneath and is almost impossible to remove without destroying the tooth. Now you know! BUYER BEWARE!!!!
The teeth on this page are from the Huarra Formation of Northern Chile and were lost during the Pliocene Epoch approximately 4 million years ago. The black mottling that some of these teeth exhibit is caused by the presence of manganese in the surrounding sediment. Fossils from only one other place in the world have this unusual characteristic coloration - Sharktooth Hill, California.
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