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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.

2,940 topics in this forum

  1. Real Tooth

    By FossilHunterNYC,   
    • 10 replies
    • 1.1k views

  2. Mosasaur jaws?

    By FF7_Yuffie,   
    • 3 replies
    • 636 views

  3. Are these real?

    By Vleuver,   
    • 7 replies
    • 1.4k views

  4. Megalodon Tooth

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 12 replies
    • 905 views

  5. Lobster, real or fake?

    By PrehistoricWonders,   
    • 9 replies
    • 800 views

  6. Mosasaur Jaw

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 5 replies
    • 705 views

  7. Indonesian Meg

    By MarcoX,   
    • 6 replies
    • 1.3k views

  8. Is this a real spinosaurus tooth?

    By Belly,   
    • 3 replies
    • 512 views

  9. Indonesian megalodon teeth warning!

    By aeon.rocks,   
    • 14 replies
    • 5.8k views

  10. Deer jaw, possibly a fossil

    By PrehistoricWonders,   
    • 4 replies
    • 634 views

  11. Crabs?

    By PrehistoricWonders,   
    • 6 replies
    • 1.2k views

  12. Is this a real spinosaurus tooth?

    By Karuzai,   
    • 9 replies
    • 620 views

  13. Megalodon Tooth

    By BellamyBlake,   
    • 6 replies
    • 922 views

  14. Real Deltadromeus bone?

    By Guns,   
    • 5 replies
    • 811 views

  15. Real Halisaurus Arambourgi Premaxillary nose bone ?

    By Guns,   
    • 13 replies
    • 1.1k views

  16. Pliosaur rib/vert in matrix

    By FF7_Yuffie,   
    • 20 replies
    • 1.2k views

  17. A suspicious looking crocodile

    By FF7_Yuffie,   
    • 7 replies
    • 800 views

  18. Is This Claudiosaurus Skeleton Real?

    By OneLastSift,   
    • 6 replies
    • 767 views

  19. Can someone help tell me if this is a genuinely trilobite

    By Georgemckenzie,   
    • 11 replies
    • 817 views

  20. Yet another Mosasaur jaw for scrutiny

    By snolly50,   
    • 4 replies
    • 678 views

  21. Some eggs for identification

    By Fotsirk,   
    • 9 replies
    • 699 views

  22. Mosasaur tooth

    By Tanisha,   
    • 3 replies
    • 818 views

  23. Yet more Mosasaur jaw pieces

    By FF7_Yuffie,   
    • 3 replies
    • 772 views

  24. Red Flag T-rex Toe Bone

    By Troodon,
    • 4 replies
    • 2k views

  25. Archaeotherium upper jaw section

    By DawnOfADream,   
    • 6 replies
    • 748 views
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