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True Starfish or Fake Starfish?
Lucid_Bot posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Howdy! I'm just wondering if this is real. I've never seen one like this. It's Moroccan, Ordovician, Asteroidea or true Starfish. Thanks for the help. -
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Some Say Lightning Doesn't Strike the Same Place Twice...
EPIKLULSXDDDDD posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Return to the Badlands of North Texas At long last, rain graced the lands of North Texas this past week. For many of us, that meant it was time to finally crawl out of bed and beat the crowd to that one particular site desperately needing a refresh. In my case, I set on my way to explore a newer spot in the Grayson Marl while the ground was still nice and muddy. I'd been to this place once before, but it had already been thoroughly picked over. It's a popular site, but even then, it managed to pull through and produce some fine specimens for me to take home. With that in mind, I su- 9 replies
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Selling Real for Fake Fossils?
Lucid_Bot posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Everyone I've encountered on this site has been very helpful, so thank you. However, I'm in need of more help. For the last year I've been collecting real fossils in the field and selling some to pay for more exotic rocks. In a recent post I found that my Solnhofen shrimp is, if not totally, mostly fake. Now I'm quite suspicious of my entire purchased collection and was hoping you could help me identify fakes. The first two pictures are apparently Priscacara, Green River Formation, Eocene; the next two supposedly Asteroidea, Morocco, Ordovician; the last three supposedly Triassic, Arizona petr- 25 replies
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First post on TFF, hello all! I can't lie though, I've been sneakily perusing this forum for a good year now, learning from other's posts! Anyways... This is a tiny stellate structure found on Jurassic limestone from the Cotswolds, England. Upon first glance, I somewhat childishly assumed it to be asteroidea, but, based on other specimen I've gathered in this area, and the details on it, I'm leaning more towards a Pentacrinite columnal. However, based on the thinness of the structure, its taxophonomy, and the fact that it alone, I'm still unsure. There's also a plethora
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Asteroidea (starfish) from Ordovician of Pennsylvania
traveltip1 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Saturday dawned a bit chilly, but the sun peeped out from lingering clouds to brighten a stellar day of fossil prospecting in the Ordovician bedrock of central Pennsylvania. We strolled along the limestone ground, like beachcombers peering in shallow shore waters, when my relatively newbie friend exclaimed, "That looks like a starfish!" Bingo...Indeed it was an Asteroidea. I'm guessing it's genus Urasterella, and I wonder how rare is this find. The specimen's longest ray is 1.75 inches (4.45 cm). Photos are the rock slab and a closeup of the mostly complete starfish, as f- 24 replies
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