Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Fossils Guide

Players can obtain many exclusive pokemon through fossils, and if you plan to visit the underground, you will want to understand how to collect fossils and revive them.

How To Get Fossils in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Fossils can be brought to the Mining Museum and turned back into living Pokemon, two of these Pokemon are found during the game's main story, and will be listed below.

Location: Grand Underground

Obtain the National Pokedex. (Without this, you will NOT be able to obtain all the fossils listed here.)
Talk to the old man inside the house next to the Pokemon Center in Eterna City to obtain an Explorer Kit.
Go outside the building and select the Kit from the Key Items section of your bag to be transported underground.
Shiny dots will appear on your map; those are item locations, you will need to approach them and dig them up.
Once digging for long enough, you will come across multiple fossils such as; Claw Fossil, Dome Fossil, Helix Fossil, Root Fossil and, Old Amber.
With your fossils, go to Orebergh City.
Go to the Mining Museum and speak to the man behind the counter and leave a fossil with him.
Leave the building and then come back inside.
After speaking to the man again, your fossil will now be revived into a Pokemon.

Note: It may take some time to find fossils due to their rarity.

List Of Fossil Pokemon

Below is a list of all the fossils that can be found and excavated in the Grand Underground. They can be taken to the Oreburgh Mining Museum to be revived into living Pokemon. You can revive multiple of the same kind of Fossil Pokemon- given you have the necessary fossil.


Fossil	What It Does	Rarity	Requirement
Armor Fossil	Revives into Shieldon	(Rare)	(Pearl Only)
Skull Fossil	Revives into Cranidos	(Rare)	(Diamond Only)
Claw Fossil	Revives into Anorith	(Rare)	(After National Pokedex )
Dome Fossil	Revives into Kabuto	(Rare)	(After National Pokedex )
Helix Fossil	Revives into Omanyte	(Rare)	(After National Pokedex )
Old Amber	Revives into Aerodactyl	(Rare)	(After National Pokedex )
Root Fossil	Revives into Lileep	(Rare)	(After National Pokedex )


TIER	Pokemon	Total	HP	ATK	SP.ATK	DEF	SP.DEF	SPD
B	Aerodactyl	515	80	105	60	65	75	130
C	Omastar	495	70	60	115	125	70	55
C	Kabutops	495	60	115	65	105	70	80
C	Cradily	495	86	81	81	97	107	43
C	Armaldo	495	75	125	70	100	80	45
C	Rampardos	495	97	165	65	60	50	58
C	Bastiodon	495	60	52	47	168	138	30
E	Omanyte	355	35	40	90	100	55	35
E	Kabuto	355	30	80	55	90	45	55
E	Lileep	355	66	41	61	77	87	23
E	Anorith	355	45	95	40	50	50	75
E	Cranidos	350	67	125	30	40	30	58
E	Shieldon	350	30	42	42	118	88	30

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