How Quality is Rated
Exceptional: Virtually flawless, with almost every serration intact, >95% intact bourlette, no enamel peeling or damage and undamaged root with preserved texture and blood vessel holes.
Excellent : Very few flaws, with most serrations intact, >90% intact bourlette, minimal enamel peeling or damage and mostly undamaged root with preserved texture and often blood vessel holes, but possibly some minor pitting.
Good: Some flaws, with most serrations intact, >85% intact bourlette, some enamel peeling or damage and mostly undamaged root with possible lack of surface texture preservation and often some pitting or erosion.
Moderate : Numerous flaws, a number of missing serrations, <80% intact bourlette, enamel peeling or damage and partially damaged root with possible lack of surface texture preservation and often substantial pitting or erosion.
Repaired: A tooth in otherwise good condition that has a mostly clean break that is glued back together
Restored: A tooth with an unknown condition, possibly missing portions of the original fossil and reconstructed
How are teeth priced?
All the teeth sold on this website come from my private collection. Generally, it's difficult to actually make money selling fossils, as nice fossils are expensive to purchase even for someone reselling them such as myself. Prices are set in one of two ways. The first way is to look on other websites , ebay and Faebook/Instagram and see what prices teeth are fetching in the different conditions. My goal is to sell teeth at a competitive price. The other way is to consider how badly I do or do not want to sell one of my teeth. The ones I really like are still for sale, but since I'm happy to keep them, I've set the prices higher. I am willing to negotiate on certain teeth, so if you see something you like and think the price is wrong, send me a message and let's chat! Many of the teeth I'm selling are very high quality but with a single major flaw, like a chip on the edge from a pick axe, or the tooth was broken and glued together. These teeth are highly discounted relative to the prices they would fetch without the defect.
Where else can I get Indonesian Megs?
Indonesian megs can be purchased from a number of online sources, such as ebay, fossil dealers and social media sights.
Ebay is full of Indonesean megs, but it's a risky place because many sellers are either dishonest about the condition of the tooth, or often times just ignorant of how to spot hidden repairs. Most of the lower cost Indonesean megs have extensive root repairs, and often they are very poorly done. Another common thing to see, even from reputable fossil dealers, is matrix embedded within the roots. While many nice teeth have some matrix embedded within a pitted matrix, this should certainly lower the price relative to Indo megs with a full and well preserved root. All this being said, many nice Indo megs are on ebay, but you will need to generally pay higher prices for the nice ones that aren't marred with poor repair work.
A number of online vendors have very nice Indo megs, such as Buried Tresure Fossils (https://www.buriedtreasurefossils.com/), Fossil Era (https://www.fossilera.com/) and Marks Fossils (https://marksfossils.com/).