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Libellula doris larva
Othniel C. Marsh posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Has this Libellula doris larva, from the Tortonian of Italy been painted on, heavily restored, or is it unrestored? Thanks in advance for any guidance Othniel -
Solnhofen Dragonfly - What is real?
DarasFossils posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello, My Dad and I purchased a really beautiful Solnhofen dragonfly resembling something very similar to this (not my picture), which has these really prominent eyes and legs on it. Is this naturally preserved or likely painted on, and if so, does this affect the quality and value? Seller is reputable and I know paint is common with the Solnhofen just so you can see them for display which I don't mind but just curious what is likely real and what is not... Ours is a big boy at over 7". -
Howdy! I’ve recently inherited a small amount of money, which I intend to spend on a high quality fossil. Merry Christmas to me! (I’m sure my Mom would approve…) I’ve always wanted a Solnhofen dragonfly. Attached are a couple photos of a specimen of interest, identified as Aeschnogomphus. I’ve requested UV photos if possible of specimen, which is in Europe. I know it’s essentially all real. But is there artistic enhancement? Seller says no repair, but can’t say whether it has been enhanced. It is very, very expensive, a once in a lifetime purchase. Probably a good investment. But perhaps too expensive to buy online…From someone I don’t know… I can provide website name or link if allowed on this Forum. I also have my eye on a Burgess Shale fossil as an alternative, authenticity guaranteed, from a very reputable guy I’ve purchased from before. Any thoughts at all would be much appreciated. Cheers!
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From the album: Fossils from the Plattenkalke of the Altmühl Valley
another lovely dragonfly, 4 wings and parts of the body (the body is often not preserved), size is around 7 cm, just in prep (I hope to find more of the body, we will see...) -
The lower cretaceous sediments near Nova Olinda in Bras are rich in fossils like fishes, insect and plants. One of the nicest insects you can get are dragonflies. Today it is forbidden to dig and export, so only chance is to get some from old collections. This nice 4,7 cm wide Cordulagomphus fenstratus has no coloring or restaurations
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From the album: Fossils from the Plattenkalke of the Altmühl Valley
rare and beautyful: Dragonflies. But, not easy to identify... Details in the wing-structure, length of upper to lower wing... this is one we did not find the right name yet. Might be a small Cymatophlebia, but... Size is around 6 cm, Eichstaett edit: we got the name, a rare Nannogomphus, great!© fossils worldwide
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Dragonfly, purportedly originally from Jurassic Daohugou Biota, China. Preservation looks rough enough to maybe be real, but I don't know much about insects that aren't encased in amber.
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Is this Dragonfly real
Volksburgs posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Wanted a bit of help on this one. I am in the market for a dragonfly fossil from Solnhofen Germany. I have found this one but not sure it is real. Any help would be great. They list it as a "tarsophlebia eximia" Thanks!- 15 replies
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Hi, I have here a Dragonfly fossil from Germany. The fossil itself is just over 3". How would I tell if it's authentic? Thank you, Bellamy
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Hello, As I'm sure most have seen, certain fossils sometimes have a white or cream colored "halo" around them and other times the same type of fossil doesn't. I'm wondering.... can someone explain why this is? I personally always prefer specimens without the halo purely from an aesthetic perspective. But I'd be curious to learn more about why this is done and also whether or not other people prefer one way over the other. Is one way considered more desired than the other way, should one expect to pay a significant premium for one over the other? etc. Thanks very much! And to show you what I'm talking about... here are some examples of specimens I've seen from the same location where one has a halo and one does not. It's obvious, but in each of the three examples the first example does not have a very noticeable halo and the second example does have it.
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I do not have a lot of experience buying insect fossils and was wondering if this ancestor to the modern dragonfly fossil is real?
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New species Announcement
gobbler716 posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
This morning a paper was published about a find I made a couple of years ago. Beckemeyer-Engel-2018-Archaemegatptilus (1).pdf- 14 replies
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Ephemeropsis trisetalis Dragonfly Larvae fossil Liaoning Province of China Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous 113-145 million years These fossil plates display classic early dragonfly Ephemeropsis trisetalis features in great detail for a fossil of this age. IInsects were one of the first groups to recover from the great Permian mass extinction and show more diversity in the Triassic. One of their early advantages was that some of them had mastered flight and were able to escape from predators, something no other group succeeded in doing for millions of years. From then until today, insects have been increasing in variety and have remained largely unaffected by other global extinctions. The appearance of flowering plants in Cretaceous further stimulated insect evolution as the plants used insects for pollination. The name Palaeoptera has been traditionally applied to those ancestral groups of winged insects (most of them extinct) that lacked the ability to fold the wings back over the abdomen as characterizes the Neoptera. The Diaphanopterodea, which are palaeopteran insects, had independently and uniquely evolved a different wing-folding mechanism. Both mayflies and dragonflies lack any of the smell centers in their brain found in Neoptera. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Palaeoptera Class: Insecta Order: Ephemeroptera Genus: Ephemeropsis Species: trisetalis- 1 comment
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From the album: Insects from the Fur Formation
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Solnhofen Dragonfly, Camarasaurus Tooth in Matrix, Allosaurus Metatarsel and T-Rex Tooth
Agos1221 posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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