Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex
The one everybody knows. Bone, not tooth — dense, dark, and heavily mineralised.
Sourcing and authenticity
Where the fossil comes from
Fossil material is easy to claim and hard to verify, so this page sets out exactly where ours comes from, how it ends up in a band, and what we are careful not to say about it.
Utah, and the seafloor off North Carolina
Dinosaur bone comes from Utah. All of it comes from a single established supplier working the Morrison and Hell Creek formations — the deposits that produce most of the identifiable dinosaur bone in North America. We buy it from one source deliberately: the material is consistent, the identification is done by people who handle these deposits every day, and there is a real relationship behind it rather than a marketplace listing. Each fossil type arrives with a certificate of authenticity from the supplier, identifying the species.
Megalodon teeth come from the Meg Ledge. We buy them from the divers who bring them up. The Meg Ledge is a run of rock ledges on the seafloor off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, roughly 25 to 45 miles out and more than 100 feet down. During the ice ages the sea stood far lower; the water cut down through millions of years of buried sediment and left limestone ledges behind. Teeth weathering out of those old layers collect along the foot of the ledges, the way gold settles behind the riffles of a sluice. Divers find them one at a time, clearing the sand away from the base of the ledges, often in strong current and poor visibility.
How the inlay is made
The inlay is crushed fossil, not a carved ring of tooth. A megalodon tooth does not bend, and no single piece could be worked into a band without destroying it. The channel is packed with crushed material and set under a clear coat, which is why the pattern runs continuously around the ring and why no two are alike.
That also settles what a lot of people are really asking: nothing museum-grade is being cut up to make jewelry. We use low-grade specimens — identified, but broken, weathered, or otherwise never destined for a collection. Material that would sit in a bin gets a second life on somebody's hand instead.
The same is true of the dinosaur bone. It arrives as fragments, already too damaged to be worth anything to a collector, and it is the mineral structure inside those fragments that gives each channel its grain.
What we set
Triceratops
Triceratops horridus
Often warmer in tone than T-rex, with visible cell structure in the grain.
Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus supremus
A long-necked sauropod. The bone tends to take a high polish.
Allosaurus
Allosaurus fragilis
A predator that shared the ground with Camarasaurus, tens of millions of years before T-rex.
Megalodon tooth
Otodus megalodon
Tooth rather than bone, and a shark rather than a dinosaur. Ours are brought up by divers from the Meg Ledge, off North Carolina.
Other species come through from time to time. If a ring is listed as a particular species, that is what is in it — where we cannot identify the animal, the ring is described simply as dinosaur bone rather than guessing at a name.
How we know what it is
We buy it ourselves. The dinosaur bone comes from one fossil outfit in Utah that we have dealt with long enough to trust, and buying from a single source is the point — after enough of the same material passes through the same hands, a piece that does not belong is obvious. That supplier issues a certificate of authenticity for each fossil type, identifying the species.
A megalodon tooth is hard to mistake. We buy them as teeth, straight from the divers, so we see every one before it is crushed: the size, the broad triangular blade, the fine serrations along its edges, and the dark band between blade and root.
We hold the records for the material we cut from. Ask about the ring you are looking at and we will tell you exactly what we have for it, and send it over if you want to see it before you order.
What we do not claim
A ring holds genuine material from an identified species. It does not hold a recognizable part of an animal, and it is not a specimen of scientific value — the material is crushed and set, and it came from pieces that had no collection value to begin with.
We do not claim an individual animal, the exact spot it was found, or an age in years for a specific ring. Where the species cannot be identified, we describe it simply as dinosaur bone rather than guessing at a name that would sell better.
The dinosaur bone is legally collected on private land. The megalodon teeth are found loose on the open seafloor and bought from the divers who find them.