Sayulita / Punta Mita beaches (Nayarit, Mexico)
A modest Pacific entry: the Banderas Bay coast around Sayulita and Punta Mita produces small modern and Pleistocene shark teeth on storm wrack. Not a trophy site — a vacation-friendly addition to the atlas for travelers in the Puerto Vallarta area.
Walk the wrack line at low tide after a storm. Surface collection only — small finds, ride home in your pocket.
Public beaches in Sayulita and Punta Mita; many free access points off Highway 200.
Mexico protects significant vertebrate fossils as patrimony — keep finds modest and report unusual material to a local museum.
- Strong Pacific surf
- Sun exposure
- Petty theft on quiet beaches
- Don't fly here for fossils — fly here for the vacation, hunt on slow mornings
- Pair with a Banderas Bay whale-watching trip in winter
Shark teeth findable here
Trophy = headline find · Rare = real score · Uncommon = some trips · Common = most trips.
Also findable here
The beachcomber's bonus round — what else the geology gives up.
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