Welcome to Pioneer Fossils! 

A Certificate of Authenticity, which has a color photo on it of the exact item you purchased, will accompany the specimen. Plus a free “floating” display stand. 

Here is a genuine fossil tooth from a Leptoceratops, a cousin to  Triceratops, as both are Ceratopsians, a group of beaked herbivorous dinosaurs. 

Leptoceratops lived in Wyoming, among other areas. This tooth is from Lance Creek Formation, Wyoming.  From the Cretaceous, the last of the Age of Dinosaurs. 

This particular tooth measures about 22.8 mm. (0.9”). 

As for the teeth, to quote Wikipedia (which I help support),  The teeth are unusual in that the dentary teeth have dual wear facets, with a vertical wear facet where the maxillary teeth sheared past the crown, and a horizontal wear facet where the maxillary teeth crushed against the dentary teeth.  This shows that Leptoceratops chewed with a combination of shearing and crushing. Between the shearing/crushing action of the teeth and the powerful jaws, Leptoceratops was probably able to chew extremely tough plant matter.

We invite you to visit our store.  Once inside our store, you will see about a thousand items for sale, and we hope you will love them.  We sell items ranging from budget  to superb.

If you like what we have to offer, please follow our shop by adding us to your Saved Sellers!  Scroll down to just below the item description;  you will see our Pioneer Fossil Logo on the left.  Over on the right, click on the heart by “Save Seller”, and add us to your list. To find us later, go to “My eBay” near the top right part of the selling page, then scroll down and click on “Saved Sellers”.  It is the easiest way for you to look us up in the future.

You will receive the exact item described and photographed, unless clearly stated otherwise.

This item, along with all items we sell, is only intended for responsible adults. Please keep out of reach of young children.

All of our descriptions are 100% written by American humans.

We will ship this only to the United States.  We are not responsible if the buyer reships it somewhere else, after receiving it from us. Our responsibility ends at the destination we ship it to.  If you take it out of the United States, you are on your own.

COMBINED SHIPPING:  We make every effort to combine shipping costs and we refund any overpayment back to you, on the same day we ship the item.  We have given hundreds of partial refunds for combined shipping savings.  We will do our best to combine purchases to save shipping costs. In some cases, that is easy, in some cases, not as much.  Our items are of vastly different sizes and weights, but we never use shipping as a profit center.  We would rather refund the shipping overpayment back to you, and have a happy buyer.

We are happy to enclose a COA (Certificate of Authenticity).  Some words of caution about COA’s: Do not let them become a substitute for learning about the specimens. We have been working with fossils and minerals for many years, and we have seen hundreds of very nice-looking COA’s, some that are wrong, mis-describing a specimen.

Have you ever received a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) that had no photo on it of the item you purchased?  A COA should be specific to one particular specimen,  with a photo of the item on it.  At Pioneer Fossils, all of our fossils and minerals that come with a COA, have a photo of the exact item you just purchased.  It can never be transferred to a different specimen.

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IMPORTANT: If you are not satisfied with your order, please contact us, and let us make it right, before giving any feedback.  We want to make sure you are fairly treated by us  always.    ***********************************************************************************************************************************

Signature upon delivery: We sometimes may decide it is best to put a "Signature Required" on a shipment, of any size or price. If it is important to you that you DO receive, or do NOT receive a Signature Required, please let us know at time of purchase. Any item over $200, you can expect a Signature required.

Return Policy:   If you are not satisfied with your item, please contact us within 72 hours of receiving the item.  We'll refund your purchase price, minus shipping charges, upon safe return of the item to us in original condition (item cannot be altered or damaged) within 30 days of buyer’s receipt of item. Failure to contact us within 72 hours of receipt of item, voids this offer. Buyer is responsible for all return shipping charges.   

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