Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) Guides

Fossils List With Prices & How To Get Them

There are over 70 Fossils to discover and donate to the Museum in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! Track them with complete list of every Fossil in the game and how to find them in this guide.

How To Find & Get New Fossils

You can find fossils in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by looking for star-shaped ‘X’ spots on the ground across your island. These spots mark buried items on the island that can be dug up using the Shovel tool! When you find one, take out your shovel and dig to reveal the buried item.

While most of the time you’ll find a Fossil when doing so, it’s possible for other items to be buried too like pitfalls or treasure from villagers.

If you do find a new Fossil buried in the ground, you’ll need to have the fossil assessed to discover which fossil item you actually have! Talk to Blathers at the Museum and he’ll help you out by accessing your fossil to reveal its identity.

How Many Fossils Appear Per Day?

Every day at 5AM in-game time, a fresh batch of four fossils will be newly buried on your island and you’ll have to wait until the next day for more to appear. However, you can sometimes find additional fossils buried on Mystery Islands accessible using a Nook Miles Ticket! Be sure to look out for these when visiting other islands.

Sometimes it can be pretty tricky to find all of the fossils on your islands but don’t give up! Remember to look in corners of your landscape that you don’t usually visit, or behind obstructions like trees.

You Can Trade With Friends

If you want to speed up the process of completing your Museum’s Fossils section, keep in mind that fossils are a fully tradeable item in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Instead of selling duplicate fossils that you already have donated, consider asking your friends if they still need the fossils you have duplicates of and conduct a trade with them! Maybe they have duplicates of their own that you’re missing?

We’ve personally been doing this with our friends and have nearly completed the entire Museum in less than a month, so it’s well worth the time and effort in our opinion. You can even use a collaborative Google Sheet or other online tools to simply the process by listing which fossils you are missing.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fossil Checklist & Sell Price

Use the complete checklist below of all 73 fossils you can find and donate in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, plus which fossil sets they belong to and how many Bells you can sell each fossil for. Tap on a fossil to mark it as collected and keep track of your collection — data is saved to your device.

Acanthostega

2,000

Amber

1,200

Ammonite

1,100

Ankylo Skull

Ankylosaurus Set

3,500

Ankylo Tail

Ankylosaurus Set

2,500

Ankylo Torso

Ankylosaurus Set

3,000

Anomalocaris

2,000

Archaeopteryx

1,300

Archelon Skull

Archelon Set

4,000

Archelon Tail

Archelon Set

3,500

Australopith

1,100

Brachio Chest

Brachiosaurus Set

5,500

Brachio Pelvis

Brachiosaurus Set

5,000

Brachio Skull

Brachiosaurus Set

6,000

Brachio Tail

Brachiosaurus Set

5,500

Coprolite

1,100

Deinony Tail

Deinonychus Set

2,500

Deinony Torso

Deinonychus Set

3,000

Dimetrodon Skull

Dimetrodon Set

5,500

Dimetrodon Torso

Dimetrodon Set

5,000

Dinosaur Track

1,000

Diplo Chest

Diplodocus Set

4,000

Diplo Neck

Diplodocus Set

4,500

Diplo Pelvis

Diplodocus Set

4,500

Diplo Skull

Diplodocus Set

5,000

Diplo Tail

Diplodocus Set

5,000

Diplo Tail Tip

Diplodocus Set

4,000

Dunkleosteus

3,500

Eusthenopteron

2,000

Iguanodon Skull

Iguanodon Set

4,000

Iguanodon Tail

Iguanodon Set

3,000

Iguanodon Torso

Iguanodon Set

3,500

Juramaia

1,500

Left Megalo Side

Megaloceros Set

4,000

Left Ptera Wing

Pteranodon Set

4,500

Left Quetzal Wing

Quetzalcoatlus Set

5,000

Mammoth Skull

Mammoth Set

3,000

Mammoth Torso

Mammoth Set

2,500

Megacero Skull

Megacerops Set

4,500

Megacero Tail

Megacerops Set

3,000

Megacero Torso

Megacerops Set

3,500

Myllokunmingia

1,500

Ophthalmo Skull

Ophthalmosaurus Set

2,500

Ophthalmo Torso

Ophthalmosaurus Set

2,000

Pachy Skull

Pachycephalosaurus Set

4,000

Pachy Tail

Pachycephalosaurus Set

3,500

Parasaur Skull

Parasaurolophus Set

3,500

Parasaur Tail

Parasaurolophus Set

2,500

Parasaur Torso

Parasaurolophus Set

3,000

Plesio Skull

Plesiosaurus Set

4,000

Plesio Tail

Plesiosaurus Set

4,500

Plesio Torso

Plesiosaurus Set

4,500

Ptera Body

Pteranodon Set

4,000

Quetzal Torso

Quetzalcoatlus Set

4,500

Right Megalo Side

Megaloceros Set

5,500

Right Ptera Wing

Pteranodon Set

4,500

Right Quetzal Wing

Quetzalcoatlus Set

5,000

Sabertooth Skull

Sabertooth Tiger Set

2,500

Sabertooth Tail

Sabertooth Tiger Set

2,000

Shark-Tooth Pattern

1,000

Spino Skull

Spinosaurus Set

4,000

Spino Tail

Spinosaurus Set

2,500

Spino Torso

Spinosaurus Set

3,000

Stego Skull

Stegosaurus Set

5,000

Stego Tail

Stegosaurus Set

4,000

Stego Torso

Stegosaurus Set

4,500

T. Rex Skull

T. Rex Set

6,000

T. Rex Tail

T. Rex Set

5,000

T. Rex Torso

T. Rex Set

5,500

Tricera Skull

Triceratops Set

5,500

Tricera Tail

Triceratops Set

4,500

Tricera Torso

Triceratops Set

5,000

Trilobite

1,300

In the Version 1.3 Summer Update, the Plesio Body fossil was renamed to the Plesio Torso.

How To Easily Check Which Fossils You Already Have

One easy way to check which fossils you’ve already found and likely donated is to make use of the Nook Shopping feature! Head to the Nook Stop terminal at Resident Services, or the Nook Shopping app on your NookPhone if you’ve unlocked it, and select the icon showing wallpapers and flooring.

Inside this misleadingly named section featuring wallpaper and flooring items, you’ll find a Fossils tab towards the end of the sections at the top of the screen. Select the Fossils tab to get a handy list of every Fossil item that you’ve ever cataloged!

You can use this catalog list to help deduce which fossils you’re missing so far in conjunction with our complete fossil list below. Both the in-game list and our list in this guide are sorted in the same alphabetical order, so it’s pretty easy to compare.

It’s worth noting that this list includes any Fossil that your character has ever picked up for any reason. That means if you’ve ever gotten new fossils and chose to sell them for Bells rather than donate, then you might see them in your list even if they haven’t been donated. Or if you sent it to a friend instead of donating yourself.

If that’s the case, your only other option will be to manually go through your entire Museum checking the display plaques to put together a list of every Fossil you’ve donated. Unfortunately, Animal Crossing: New Horizons doesn’t seem to have a handy donated items menu like in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.