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Hello, Found an online sale of an indet. Raptor claw, see the link below. edit: it is something that somebody else has for sale and I decided not to purchase it. Found it unfair to have it listed here as potential fake without any clear answer. Therefore I deleted the photo’s, best answer is a link to similar fossils, so thats the informative value of this post.
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Hello hello, I'm Sharon from Massachusetts and all of the ground beneath me for miles is metamorphic or igneous, so I have to travel to find fossils. I am a newbie - my collection takes up about seven shelves - but I have been collecting for 40 years. Being in one place for a short time, I am limited in what I can collect. I've been to England and found ammonites in Lyme Regis and Whitby. Visited my brother in Arkansas and found an Archimedes screw and some crinoids. Peace River phosphate tailings for sharks teeth. A week in Pennsylvania and I found brachiopods, and wading a stream in Red Bank, NJ gave up a nice belemnite and ostrea. Long for a trilobite and almost got hit by a train as I searched, but nope. So I must also buy fossils online from a dealer I trust. Only invertebrates. I am a retired educator and enjoy showing my fossils to young people. Am I too much of a dabbler to be in this forum? But I love to read your posts and look at your photos!
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pugrockprincess posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hey everyone! You were all so great when it came to helping me determine what fossils were authentic and worth spending well on. Well, I recently came across an online seller. I purchased a "jaw bone" (authentic teeth, the typical fake jaw set in sand) and noticed they are now selling many more fossils that appear to be complete casts. Is it worth reporting them or could it be that they don't know much about fossils themselves and are being conned by their suppliers? They have 100% positive feedback so I guess their customers don't know what to look for either?- 1 reply
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