The Inuit use a lot of "fossil ivory" in their sculptures and other carvings which are sold through native crafts shops in the US and Canada and abroad as well. The term includes all of the material that is found in skeletal form and which is fairly widespread in the Canadian and Russian Arctic. The completely fossilized material (bone replaced by mineral) is not what is meant or is it usable in the same way. The term is applied to skeletal materials found on shore, not hunted and killed, material.