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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. Is it Real? Trilobite

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  2. Nervous auction Fish Fossil Asialepidotus

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  3. crab with red flags?

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  4. Ichthyosaur tail

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  5. Restored meg

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  6. Fake Hadrosaur Egg?

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  7. Fake Agate?

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  8. wierd prep or bad fish

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  9. Large morrocan trilobite, real?

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  10. Dinosaur egg - real or not?

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  11. Not a worm infested dinosaur egg...

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  12. Baby Mosasaur

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  13. Two headed Hyphalosaurus

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  14. T-rex tooth?

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  15. Ornitholestes Vertebrae

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  16. Real or Fake

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  17. Natural vs Restored

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  18. Egg or rock?

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  19. are these fossil fish real?

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  20. Real fish fossil?

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  21. Phacops or FAKEops

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  22. Dinosaur eggs from Ganzhou, Jiangxi?

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  23. Lot with Psittacosaurus fossils. Everything Real?

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  24. Red flags on "Fossils" being sold

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