The Fossil Mall is the flagship web site of multiple
fossil dealers inextricably linked by our commitment to customer
service, integrity, and scientific knowledge. By combining our efforts
we achieve efficiency, economy of scale, and quality assurance and
control. The result, we believe, is the largest and most diverse
offering of the finest fossils for  sale
on the Internet. Without exhortations and self-serving hyperbole,
we collectively wax towards compulsive in the scientific description
and photographic presentations of our paleontological materials.
While
we do not bestow titles to our eclectic family of fossil dealers,
John Adamek (DBA Edcope
Enterprises) functionally serves as Fossil Mall’s COO.
John retired in 2005 from a 35-year career as a chemist in the pharmaceutical
industry. John is now devoted to the Fossil Mall enterprise, a culmination
of his life-long passion for natural history. John has two salient
characteristics that serve our consortium and our customers particularly
well: 1) he is as honest as the day is long; and, 2) he is a veritable,
walking, talking encyclopedia of paleontological knowledge. Besides
John, the Fossil Mall family is deep in trained and amateur scientists
with an aggregate many decades of experience in the paleontological
supply business.
Obtaining
the highest quality, rare, unusual and at times unobtainable fossils
is a difficult undertaking requiring much expertise. The Fossil
Mall dealers collectively maintain an impressive global paleontological
material supply chain. We have long-established relationships with
direct sources, and in most cases are able to garner rights-of-first
refusal of the best specimens that can be offered at fair prices.
A sampling of some of the rarest and so called museum garde fossils
are rotated on the Museum Fossils
pages. Our expertise and supplier relationships enable high quality
and avoidance of fraud sometimes encountered in the trade. We especially
apply a cautionary principle in obtaining Moroccan material directly
from sources that we have known and trusted over a long time, and
that know material we obtain must be filtered with utmost scrutiny
Fossil
Mall was originally launched as a group of independently owned stores.
During our growth and success, this proved somewhat cumbersome.
As a consequence, the new business model combines sales, accounting,
and customer satisfaction under John’s direction. This will
lead to re-design of many stores within Fossil Mall. Specialty
boutiques
will be added to Fossil Mall as time allows.
 Robert
Drachuk has owned and operated Western
Fossils for more than two decades, during which timehe has been
a major supplier and importer of paleontological materials, and
has become one of the most respected dealers in the industry. Robert’s
company is  headquartered
in Delta, Utah, which includes warehouse facilities and a modern
laboratory for fossil preparation. Western Fossils holds five leases
in Western Utah covering some 600 acres. Robert self-collects and
prepares a large portion of his paleontological specimens. He has
a special interest in the soft-bodied fossils of the House Range
in Utah (America’s equivalent to Canada’s Burgess Shale),
and has donated numerous specimens to research institutions; recently,
the plant fossil Trochodendron drachukii was named after him. He
has for many years operated rooms at the world’s two largest
fossil shows, Tucson in January, and Denver in September. Robert
has also long supplied fossils in bulk to educational product re-sellers.
Now, he will supply the same fossils directly to the educational
community through the latest addition to the Fossil Mall family
of sites, Educational
Fossils; there will be a difference, however, higher quality,
lower prices, and hence, better value. Over 2006 and 2007, Educational
Fossils will greatly expand its product line in the Earth Sciences
for education.
 Richie
Kurkewicz, joining in 2006, is the newest member of the fossils
dealers of Fossil Mall. His store is Pangaea
Fossils. Richie is an old-time fossil hunter with a bent for
paleontological research in the field. Joining Fossil Mall will
allow him more time in the field. He has also nurtured a worldwide
network of friends with whom he actively trades, the unique results
of which will be made available on these pages. While a trilobitaphile,
he also seeks out and obtains some unique fossils from throughout
the world. Living in San Francisco puts Richie within stricking
distance of some of the most trilobite-rich fossil hunting sites
in the world in the western United States, and particularly Utah
and Nevada.
 Gywnn
and Mike Hatfield (Primal
Extincts) are Fossil Mall’s most gregarious fossil dealers
who love, absolutely love, doing retail fossil shows. They represent
Fossil Mall each year in four shows that are within striking distance
of their home in Arkansas: 1) Jackson, Mississippi in February;
2) Memphis in April; 3) Nashville in August; and, Glen
Rose Texas in October.
Our
internet development is outsourced to a non-profit organization
that develops science-oriented web sites. They anticipate that the
recent compromise of Internet neutrality and other megatrends will
profoundly alter the WWW competitive landscape in favor of the 900
pound gorillas. Our business model perspicaciously anticipates these
changes. You have a choice among some 200 fossil websites,  including
e-bay. We believe our business approach ensures our future, and
that you will find that Fossil Mall is consistently the preferred
choice for purchasing fossils.
 Your
privacy is sacrosanct at Fossil Mall. We keep no mailing list of
customers, never send spam, and only accept credit card payments
through PayPal. We minimally advertise, and the largest volume of
business is with our satisfied, return customers from throughout
the world.
Our
pledge to you is satisfaction, integrity, and value. Achieving
this
requires many business relationships where we either find or impose
our values. Importantly, business relationships very often mature
into friendships. Consequently, we have many friends, Joe at
Pangaea
Industries, Glenn and Barb at PaleoSearch,
Bob and Linda at Black Cat Mountain
Trilobites,
and Steve at Fossilscapes,
just to name a few.
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