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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. Real or Fake (Drotops megalomanicus) ?

    By Jacobboom,   
    • 6 replies
    • 222 views

  2. Megalodon teeth fakes?

    By jeffcurnow,   
    • 13 replies
    • 410 views

  3. Is the top on this Spinosaurus tooth reconstructed?

    By Brevicolis,   
    • 4 replies
    • 286 views

  4. Chilotherium skull

    By DV77,   
    • 4 replies
    • 342 views

  5. Real Struthiomimus foot ?

    By Brevicolis,   
    • 2 replies
    • 293 views

  6. Is this Drotops Armatus real?

    By Jacobboom,   
    • 11 replies
    • 404 views

  7. Is this ammonite fossil real or fake ?

    By Ashv11,   
    • 6 replies
    • 391 views

  8. Is that a real Abelisaurid jaw ?

    By Brevicolis,   
    • 3 replies
    • 328 views

  9. Spinosaurus claw , real or fake ?

    By Brevicolis,   
    • 8 replies
    • 453 views

  10. Mosasaurus from the Ozan Formation, Texas

    By Anchiornis_huxleyi,   
    • 1 reply
    • 311 views

  11. Psittacosaurus skeleton real?

    By AranHao,   
    • 12 replies
    • 471 views

  12. Please check if it has been restored

    By dongmin,   
    • 4 replies
    • 428 views

  13. Petrified Wood Piece With A Real Marijuana Leaf Fossilized

    By MarcoSr,   
    • 6 replies
    • 447 views

  14. Allosaurus claw , real or fake ?

    By Brevicolis,   
    • 7 replies
    • 416 views

  15. Keichosaurus

    By svcgoat,   
    • 9 replies
    • 386 views

  16. Please show me your casts, replicas and fakes of Keichosaurus

    By FranzBernhard,   
    • 23 replies
    • 1k views

  17. Fake or genuine fossil?

    By Nothosaurus,   
    • 12 replies
    • 445 views

  18. Whether true ammonite or not

    By shreyam,   
    • 6 replies
    • 363 views

  19. Is this Drotops armatus real?

    By A.Passero,   
    • 3 replies
    • 334 views

  20. Tortoise fossil?

    By RhinoWater,   
    • 7 replies
    • 364 views

  21. Isotelus trilobite

    By Georgemckenzie,   
    • 10 replies
    • 590 views

  22. North Carolina Megalodon

    By KisekiFossils,   
    • 2 replies
    • 292 views

  23. Trilobite Fossil real or fake?

    By Toast123,   
    • 10 replies
    • 564 views

  24. Spinosaur teeth

    By G.Blaickner,   
    • 4 replies
    • 328 views

  25. Real machairodus/smilodon teeth?

    By MohammadAAK,   
    • 10 replies
    • 1.8k views
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