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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.

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  1. Mosasaur Jaw and Spinosaurus Tooth

    By Emaxwell90,   
    • 15 replies
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  2. Trilobite fossil

    By Brady Williams,   
    • 5 replies
    • 862 views

  3. Fossil-study help: Dinosaur tooth enamel,tooth colour, polished ammonites and amber

    By KrishnaRao10,   
    • 23 replies
    • 1k views

  4. Cambropallas

    By Bguild,   
    • 1 reply
    • 519 views

  5. Fish fossils (Knightia eocaena & Diplomystus dentatus)

    By Brady Williams,   
    • 6 replies
    • 595 views

  6. Real Triceratops nose horn

    By heZZ,   
    • 2 replies
    • 962 views

  7. Has my Megalodon tooth been restored?

    By Dudeser,   
    • 7 replies
    • 897 views

  8. Is this tooth real?

    By Rledonne,   
    • 9 replies
    • 909 views

  9. Spinosaurus tooth

    By MohammadAAK,   
    • 21 replies
    • 1.4k views

  10. Real or fake mosasaur fossil

    By Wildside532,   
    • 10 replies
    • 1k views

  11. Mosasaur Jaw - Real or fake

    By Righteous,   
    • 11 replies
    • 1.1k views

  12. What can you tell me about this fossil insect?

    By aplomado,   
    • 10 replies
    • 727 views

  13. Large Track

    By Righteous,   
    • 9 replies
    • 723 views

  14. Turtle and fish association

    By Notidanodon,   
    • 9 replies
    • 728 views

  15. Question about dark fish fossils

    By Clay man,   
    • 5 replies
    • 566 views

  16. New to group

    By Jake.parmenter,   
    • 8 replies
    • 669 views

  17. Keichousaurus or an impostor

    By Yan11,   
    • 4 replies
    • 940 views

  18. Dinosaur eggs

    By DINOMAN91,   
    • 11 replies
    • 1.1k views

  19. Trilobite

    By gebedao,   
    • 5 replies
    • 574 views

  20. Real frog (Liaobatracus sp.)?

    By MohammadAAK,   
    • 12 replies
    • 1.7k views

  21. Real keichousaurus? 1 2 3

    By MohammadAAK,   
    • 52 replies
    • 4.3k views

  22. Mosasaurus - lower jaw?

    By Berkeleybengal,   
    • 11 replies
    • 1k views

  23. the skull of mystery!!

    By Kiros,   
    • 11 replies
    • 1.2k views

  24. Cambrian Cambropllas

    By Davidevi82,   
    • 12 replies
    • 1.3k views

  25. Mosasaur Jaw

    By Mantelliceras,   
    • 5 replies
    • 836 views
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