Guns Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Is this a real T-rex tooth? this tooth belong to someone i know. He claimed that he got a big rex tooth from USA (no more specific locality). Here are Three pictures I have. What do you guy think?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 a) looks too skinny b ) looks like two teeth combined to make one. I see a thick line of non-tooth running through the middle, and if you follow the curve on the concex edge, it does not flow. I think the base portion is part of a much shorter tooth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I completely agree a composite. Actually looks like some Tyrannosauroid teeth I've seen from Uzbekistan. Local Sellers do composite these teeth. Do avoid. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadlandTraveller Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Agree with Troodon these do look like those awful Uzbekistan composites. Stay away, including any seller that would push these without a big warning about them being composite. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SULLY Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I would stay far away from this one! Not a Rex tooth to say the least 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 6 hours ago, jpc said: a) looks too skinny b ) looks like two teeth combined to make one. I see a thick line of non-tooth running through the middle, and if you follow the curve on the concex edge, it does not flow. I think the base portion is part of a much shorter tooth. Thank you! It did look very fake at my first sight and mostly a combined tooth as you said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 6 hours ago, Troodon said: I completely agree a composite. Actually looks like some Tyrannosauroid teeth I've seen from Uzbekistan. Local Sellers do composite these teeth. Do avoid. Thank you Frank. very suspicious to me at first sight of being a fake combine tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 @BadlandTraveller @SULLY Thank you guy for the coment! unfortunately this tooth already sold as Rex tooth to a dude i know by local dealer (I think you can imagine the price of nearly 4 inch rex tooth) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SULLY Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Ouch. That’s going to not be good for someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadlandTraveller Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 @Guns if it was me the first thing I would do is go back to the dealer and demand the money back. Don't go in expecting the dealer to concede and give the money back most won't. Use their reputation as leverage in the conversation that has worked for me once. That tooth has a dollar value but personally I wouldn't pay $100 for it. Okay thats the bad news. The good news is buying a composite or heavily altered fossil happens to the best of us...its just part of the fossil collecting game (especially dinosaur). Earlier this year I spent thousands on a fossil that I thought was real, many of the experts in this forum thought was authentic, and one of the best preppers around saw it in person and thought most of it was real. It was not. This is from a known dealer who has sold me real fossils previously. People do desperate things when they need money I guess. It happens, take it as a lesson, move on. Educate yourself on how these fakes are made....its mostly epoxy putty and paint like this tooth. You need to really look at the fossil "definition?" or texture across the whole. Real bone texture is hard to replicate by sculpting putty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted December 8, 2020 Author Share Posted December 8, 2020 @BadlandTraveller I will tell the dude who bought this tooth for maybe took his money back if that possible. Thank you for the advice man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 7:22 AM, Guns said: @BadlandTraveller @SULLY Thank you guy for the coment! unfortunately this tooth already sold as Rex tooth to a dude i know by local dealer (I think you can imagine the price of nearly 4 inch rex tooth) Ouch! Ask for a full refund. Thankfully it is easy enough to prove this tooth is a composite. Either the testimonials of countless T. rex teeth collectors, photo references next to proper T. rex teeth sample, or even an email to a tyrannosaurid paleontologist should show that this tooth is a bust Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 @-Andy- Yeah I will let that dude know. I can't imagine his pain . super sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guns Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 38 minutes ago, -Andy- said: email to a tyrannosaurid paleontologis @-Andy- Do you have a email contact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, Guns said: @-Andy- Do you have a email contact? I will PM you 1 Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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