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Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications

This forum is devoted to illuminating the pitfalls to be avoided when considering the purchase of fossils. From fabrications to restorations, this is the section to discuss.


For our educational purposes, the sellers' identity and pricing are immaterial; this is all about the specimens. 
Please do not post links to websites, nor identify or incriminate a seller in any way. Do not post prices.

Please read and follow the guidelines found in the Pinned topic below.


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  1. Keichousaurus Hui

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  2. Guide for identifying fakes?

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  3. Is this a real Mosasaur tooth?

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  4. Plesiosaur propodial with predation marks

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  5. Twin eggs

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  6. Keichousaurus identification!

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  7. Real Mosasaurus paddles?

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  8. Is this ceratopsian tooth real?

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  9. Indonesian Megalodon

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  10. Need help ID this megalodon tooth

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  11. Keichousaurus hui fake?

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  12. Megalodon - Peruvian

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  13. Is this a real Spinosaurus tooth?

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  14. Keichousaurus hui real or fake?

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  15. Repaired Carch tooth?

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  16. Keichousaurus - real, fake, altered?

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  17. Cornuproetus cornutus trilobite fossil

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  18. Megalodon Tooth

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  19. Real fish skull bone from the Kem Kem Beds?

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  20. Real Tooth

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  21. Mosasaur jaws?

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  22. Are these real?

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  23. Megalodon Tooth

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  24. Lobster, real or fake?

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  25. Mosasaur Jaw

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