PALEO DIRECT, INC.
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA

who are selling direct to the public Paleo Direct, Inc. is one of those few direct suppliers Every serious museum subjects their specimens to treatment in a lab.  Most of the items in the fossil and artifact market are sold by resellers who lack an understanding of the work performed because they acquired it in a "finished" state and have not a facility nor active, on-going lab experience to identify what is repaired, restored, original or forged.  Today, every market is fraught with forgeries and misrepresented items.  and some resellers are facilitating this dangerous market climate.  We follow a strict acquisition protocol of not acquiring specimens from unknown sources and we adhere to all domestic and foreign regulations and laws when it comes to collecting, exporting, importing and selling.  We refrain from selling any items that are prohibited to export from our resident country or import into our customers' resident countries. where we began precision faceting gemstones and fabricating custom fine jewelry.  The highly intricate and complex work that was required in faceting rare gems as well as working with precious metal casting and fabrication, forged an unusual mindset of normalcy when working with abnormally small and delicate objects.  This led to a discipline of "perfection" as an only acceptable result.  That early experience laid the groundwork and developed skills for what was to later be applied with great success, to our increasing focus on paleontological work and what was to eventually become, PALEO DIRECT.  In those beginning years, our business was conducted by the "ancient" methods of magazine advertising and selling from a printed catalog we produced and mailed several times each year.  In 1994, our fossil and artifact business was online Local internet service providers did not even exist then !  This was literally the "STONE AGE" for online business and we are proud to say we were one of the first to be there!  The and has consistently grown to the enterprise we are today.  Our founding principles of 1986 are still the basis of our business conduct today -  In the early days when we began, NO ONE talked about repair or restoration until our listings started to mention it as routine.  We were the FIRST online fossil supplier to offer extensive information SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL SPECIMEN BEING OFFERED and provide high resolution photographs online for the viewer, of each item available for sale.  We were the first commercial online supplier to loudly warn of fakes, openly educating with detailed photos and descriptions on our website, the techniques used by fraudulent sellers and artisans in the fossil market.  We were also the first major online commercial supplier to present high end and rare fossils as PROMISING INVESTMENTS.  We were RIGHT ON in our assessment and today, the finest artifacts and fossils command prices many, many times what they did just 10-15 years ago.  Paleo Direct prides itself in being one of the FIRST online suppliers to offer an UNCONDITIONAL  The lack of a written guarantee by the seller, renders you the buyer, legally 'powerless' should any problem down the road arise with your purchase. .  Time and experience in making purchases within today's fossil and artifact market will bear witness to the claims we make here.  Paleo Direct is "your direct from the lab source for authentic choice quality fossil specimens and artifacts". .  Auction houses, shops and ordinary dealers lack an on-site lab and the experience that goes with it, making it impossible to Please fill out the form below if you have any questions about making an order or inquiring about an item shown.