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I'm having a hard time finding any images of anything other than the outside/side view of a spinosaur pelvic bone. I'm trying to see what the bone looks like in general, but all too many times...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many times I'll spend forever unsuccessfully trying to come across pictures, images, or diagrams that show what a bone looks like from other angles than what you see be looking at the skeleton from generic angles, like this one. In some cases it's not TOO difficult, but even those common bones have areas that you can never see, unless you get totally lucky and happen across it, OR if there's maybe, hopefully some site/database that specifically shows what entire bones look like. I doubt that, but I know there's perfect diagrams floating around on the web, but I can't seem to find any *im just talking about dinos and other extinct animal bones. I'm sure there's plenty of sites with images of every conceivable angle of every bone from humans and common living animals, but I'm not looking for that kind of thing.
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Here we go, I finally got two nice Sinosauridae indet. teeth (long more or less 8-9 cm). I love the fact that one is pointy and not broken, while the bigger one has the typical ridges along the tooth. What do you think?
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My mother's best friend found this I believe somewhere around Fremont County in Wyoming and I've been trying to figure out exactly what it is. I have been told that it is either a Plesiosaurus, myosaurus, or possibly a Spinosaurus, tooth. if anybody has any info on this I appreciate it thank you. I've got more pics if needed
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Spinosaurus tooth - real, not composite?
Chelasmosaurus posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi, I came across this fossil Spinosaurus tooth - at least it looks like a real Spinosaurus from what I can tell, but I'm not an expert ... hence my visit here I'm also wondering if it's a single tooth or multiple specimens glued together. I'm worried about the differences in color between the top half and bottom half, but the shape seems to line up pretty nicely, so I'm just not sure. So, is this a real Spinosaurus tooth? And is it a single fossil or a composite? Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks
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This looks a little weird to me. Does this seem like the real genuine article to you guys?
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Real or Fake Spinosaurus tooth
Patient113 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
New to buying fossils and need some help. My friends birthday is coming up and her favorite dinosaur is a spinosaurus so I bought her two teeth on ebay. The listing says they are authentic "rooted" spinosaurus teeth with no "restore". I have read online that sometimes people will attach cement to the bottom of the teeth and I'm wondering if that's what they did here. I have two weeks to return them so any help would be appreciated. Thanks for the support!
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Spinosaurus Tooth, % restoration? fake? authentic?
palochris68 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello ! This is my second fossil, bought on an small exhibition in France, it's a Tooth of Spino (according the seller). 3,5 inches. I have studied a lot of the old threads on the forum about Spino Tooth, but it's very difficult for me to recognizing a real, a fake, a restored... I paid this piece 138 dollars. What do you think? Especially if there is a lot of restauration ? Is this a nice and authentic piece (for this price of course) ?
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So far I have only 2 Spinosaurus teeth in my collection. Their not very impressive by the fact that they’re small with lots of feeding wear on their tips. Hopefully, I can collect more impressive specimens in the future. I added a drawing of the animal to give you a sense of what it looks like. This drawing is also on my Deviantart gallery. One thing I have is that the tooth on the left feels to me more crocodilian like in appearance.
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Is this a Spinosaurus premax tooth?
Deinocheirusmaster! posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I recently bought a Spinosaurus tooth from a fossil shop on the Rocky Moutains. I noticed this little ridge on both sides of the tooth. I looked at some pictures on the internet and im inclined to beileve that its from the premaxilla. Supposedly the teeth from the premaxilla are pointed with sharp edges on both sides. Could this tooth be one of those? Note that there is feeding wear on the tooth.
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3.5 Inch Spinosaurus Tooth Painted?
Ms.Fossil posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I recently purchased this 3.5 inch spinosaurus tooth online, but have some concerns it may be painted. I was told by the previous owner that when checked under microscope, it appeared to have some glue in the cracks, possibly just to keep them from spreading but did not appear to have any full break repairs. However to me, the colour looks too consistent, and the colour leaks into the center on top as though painted. Thoughts?
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I apologize for the multiple posts. But so many interesting things I want to buy, and literature in our language is not always enough, as well as people who specialize in dinosaurs. We have a lot of specialists in unvertebrates, marine reptiles and the ice period fauna. But with beds of other countries is not very. Is it really a dinosaur caprolit? The seller writes that you can see the bony inclusions.
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Ok, so this is supposed to be a spinosaurus vert, one with part of the sail. At first glance it seems perfect, but upon further study, while trying to place it on spinosaurus skeletons, it doesn't seem to match any exactly. For one thing, spinosaurus sails, at least in the relatively insignificant amount of individuals on display, sail bones that don't go any higher than this one(it appears this is a fully intact sail vert), don't seem to get as wide. And the ones that do, then continue up and get thinner. There ARE similar shaped "sail" bones, at the transition to the neck, and tail, but those aren't as tall as this one. The main bone itself appears to be from the tail, or rear part of the sail, but....well, anywhere that one part of the bone fits well, doesnt seem to match the rest of it very well. Sadly I can't find any good images of many of each type of vert, and anywhere that has good close up views of verts, only have 1 or 2 of any type, which isn't good enough to come to any sufficient conclusions. spinosaur fossils(specifically verts), seem to be something they work with a lot, so I would be very surprised if along with all the other spinosaurus verts they get in, they would end up with the sail spine of some other animal. And if somehow so, then not realizing it.
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4" Spinosaur Claw Red Flag
Troodon posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
This morning I noticed a Spinosaur foot claw for sale and on the surface looked like a very good purchase. Closer examination revealed a couple of concerns. First the proximal end of the claw is all weathered away to the point that diagnostic features on the ventral surface are missing. Second the seller claims no resto but I'm very concerned about the tip. There is a change in texture and color in the area I have marked. Caution..thumb.jpg.3b8a0318e7342d66011ae21729835d90.jpg)
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Are these Spino teeth real?
cryolophosaurus posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello all. I’m very, VERY new to the world of fossils and fossil collecting as a whole, but it’s something I’d really love to get into. I’d just like to ask for some opinions on the authenticity of these Spinosaurus teeth. I’m interested in purchasing, but would like some thoughts from people who actually know a thing or two about this stuff! I could not find that much info on the seller so I’m a bit cautious. Thank you so much for looking and considering.
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Hi all, I'm a new member here, just joined not long ago and I have been wanting to purchase a Spinosaurus jaw. I was wondering if any of you can tell if it is real or fake? I've also been wanting to buy Theropod complete foot (any species), anyone know some reputable sellers? I just want the toes, claws etc. Thanks!
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My eyes are not so good when it comes to Kem Kem material. What do you guys think of this vertebrae? Is it indeed Spinosauridae? It looks to me like the process has been reworked, or repaired.
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Here is a fossil I just saw on an auction site. Apparently the Spinosaurus skull is 70% fossil. Is this for real?
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Spinosaurus Aegypticus - jaw fragment ?
InvestableCards posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi all. I'm looking to buy a Spinosaurus jaw, or at least a piece of one. I know that a lot of crocodile jaws are fashioned and fitted with teeth to resemble one, with some distinct differences to the structure and composition of the bone. This one is being sold by a reputable seller as authentic with no repair/restoration (though I'm presuming the teeth have been added). It appears to be all good from my limited experience and looks like it should, both in structure and composition. I was just hoping to get some more opinions from all you lovely people on here, as I'm not overly knowledgeable on these. This one is small and approx 4 inches long x 3 inches high. Many thanks for any input. Found:- Tegana Formation, Aptian, Cretaceous, Kem Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. Age:- 100 Million Years Old.
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Hi all. I have a thread in another section of the forum about this, but figured this may also be a relevant place to make a post. I've had some interesting and helpful opinions so far, but would like more if possible to help decide it and educate myself and maybe others in the process! I'm looking to purchase a piece of what is labelled as Spinosaurus jaw. I've found what appears to be a small section, being sold by an apparently reputable business. I know from my own research that crocodile jaws are often sold as Spinosaurus jaws, but there are some stark differences between the two in anatomy and appearance. Below are some photos of the jaw, what do you think? Spinosaurus or Crocodile? I know that the teeth are added to the piece, as with virtually all Spino jaws I've seen. Generally it's only unerupted teeth that are present when found if at all. All opinions are respected, please provide some reasoning for either way so that we can educate everyone in the process.
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Hello! I am brand new to fossil collecting and I look forward to making new friends and learning from this awesome forum!
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Location: Morocco Kem Kem Beds To often Crocodile jaws are composited with Spinosaurid teeth and sold as Spinosaurus jaws. So the purpose of this topic is to show the diagnostic features of Spinosaurid jaws First its extremely rare that any jaw from this region contains functional teeth. Germ/unerupted teeth are more common but those are typically well into the tooth cavity and not protuding above the jaw line. So its highly probable that those you see sold with teeth are composited. We currently do not know if there is a variation between the jaws of the different Spinosaurids described or yet to be discovered in this region so there could be some difference between them but the general characteristics should be similar. Here is a composite skull in private hands and paleontologist Cristophe Hendrickx drawing of that skull Dentary: This is Stromers original plate. 1) You can see the variation in the lateral (side) view of jaw. A very wide anterior end and more V shaped toward the hinge. So jaw sections that you see sold which are straight across are probably crocodile. 2) The teeth are also not positioned in a straight line, and not always next to one another. 3) The most telling feature is the lip on the labial side. It should be present across the entire length of the jaw 4) Broken dentary jaw sections being sold should wide not narrow like croc's Closeup of Lip Close up of germ/unerupted teeth Premaxillary/Maxillary Much more robust than dentary however the lip feature is still present but on the lingual side. Very wide in lateral view. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144695 dal Sasso, C.; Maganuco, S.; Buffetaut, E.; Mendez, M.A. (2005). New information on the skull of the enigmatic theropod Spinosaurus with remarks on its sizes and affinities. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (4): 888–896. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0888:NIOTSO]2.0.CO;2 Maxilla for sale with composite teeth
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Spinosaurus Caudal Vertebra for trade.
DatFossilBoy posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Hey everyone. I would like to trade this really nice Spinosaurus Caudal (tail ) vertebra. It is 7,5cm and has some repairs. I would like to trade this fossil for another theropod piece (teeth,bones...) of the same value. (Already have spinosaurus tooth) If you are interested,don’t hesitate to PM me.(You can ask me for more pictures.) Cheers.
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This is my 8.9 cm. (3.5 in.) Spinosaurus tooth, which actually is in surprisingly great shape! (apart from cracks caused by clumsy past owners) However, it is curved (~0.5cm in one direction, and ~0.4 cm off to the side of the previous curve). This leaves me to wonder- how did this happen? My theory is that this Spinosaur either had something HUGE stuck between its teeth that caused them to deform as it grew older; or that a sideways tooth interfered with the normal growth of this tooth, and caused it to grow sideways (to make room for the wayside tooth). The latter is actually very common in humans! (This is why many of us as teenagers had braces, as to prevent our teeth from growing in every direction). I also prefer the last argument (I know, I argue with my self, haha...) because there is a long 3 cm indentation along the side of the tooth, which is exactly where the tooth would have interfered with the room of another tooth. The indentation is likely the blade end of another tooth which was in place when the dinosaur was still alive. The mark is visible on the right side of the tooth in the last image. I just that this was a very unique specimen that I wanted to share with the world, especially because mine is in such good shape for a tooth with almost 6 cm of intact tip enamel, and another three centimeters of root. Does anyone else have some pathological (deformed) fossil teeth they would like to share? Sounds cool! -Fossil sniper
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Hi all, In the market of Middelburg, I saw this big fossil for sale. The stand owners say it is a Spinosaurus tooth from the Tenere desert, from the Cretaceous (when precisely they don't know). But I am not very sure of this ID, because I am not seeing anything that really looks like enamel. Also, it is HUGE! Some of the photos show a 10c (Euro) coin or my hand for size indication... It's approximately 18cm from tip to tip. I don't know much about spino teeth, but isn't that a tad too big? So, what exactly is it? Is it indeed a giant spino tooth? If yes, is this a normal size for it to reach? If it isn't, what is it then? And how much of it is real (in case part of it is fake)? Unfortunately, I didn't buy the fossil, so I can't give any extra pictures. I am curious to see what your answers are! Best regards, Max
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Spinosaurus tooth real root?
Baryonyx posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I saw this tooth now the question is if the whole root is real..? I think it's a composite of two roots one is part of the tooth the other one glued on.
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