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I am looking to purchase a tortoise fossil for a while, and stumbled upon a listing for a fairly large stylemys nebrascensis for a pretty decent price. I have contacted the seller and he assured no restoration and a 100% authenticity. Just trying to gather opinions about the fossil and its authencity, and if there's any restorations/repairs. Thank you.
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So I've lurked on the forum for some time and decided to post my project. This is a stylemys tortoise that I've had since high school. It was really never worth recovering, being incomplete and completely disarticulated due to weathering. It was also somewhat crushed with only the plastron being in decent shape. Despite the challenge, I've decided to push onward, because it's got sentimental value at this point. The plastron was pretty easy to assemble: I have about 75% of the carapace (comprising the vertebral and costal scutes) but I only have about 50% of the edge (marginal scutes). This was the really painful part. Everything visible here was re-assembled from small disarticulated pieces: Here's some more carapace and all the leftover bits: My original hope was that I'd have enough to re-assemble the entire shell as one piece, without having to fill the holes. However it's clear that I don't really have a complete shell, nor is the bone strong enough to support itself without filling the gaps. In particular I'm missing most of the bridge connecting the carapace to the plastron. The plan now is to use epoxy to fill in the missing shell where necessary. I am undecided as to what extent I will try to color match the restoration (versus leaving it a different color to identify the restoration). Steve
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