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Found near New Lebanon, NY. Hoping someone can ID. Thanks!
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"Auronis" Xui (sort of)
Ezio Bonsignore posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Beyond the mispelled name (Auronis in lieu of Aurornis) this horrible thing is clearly described by the seller as a fake, so there is no need of further discussions on that. I'm however curious about 1) the tecnique used, and 2) the commercial logic of producing such things and then selling them as fakes. It doesn't seem carved to me, and the posture is identical to the well-know first fossil that led to the species being identified. Perhaps someone managed to obtain a negative cast of the original, and now is using it as a mould to produce "n" copies? In any case, the whole affair requi