A fossil collector's dream (or nightmare?)

[oilshale]

The latest discovery from China: The first Cretaceous trilobite found together with a turtle (Manchurochelys liaoxiensis) in the famous Jehol-Biota of Liaoning!

[JohnJ]

Smoke and mirrors...casting, paint, and whimsy, oh my.

[Ludwigia]

It amazes me that they spend so much time creating such things. I guess they're only into it for the money...

[Slowpoker]

These are plentiful on auction sites like eBay, where a single person sells these and other fraudulent fossils constructed from mere plastics and resins.

[Oxytropidoceras]

Go read: "Can anything be done about all those

fake Chinese "fossils" being sold on Ebay?" at

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Selling/Can-anything-be-done-about-all-those-fake-Chinese-quot-fossils/td-p/19917048

A previous Fossil Forum article is "Fake Chinese

Vertebrate Fossils On Ebay" at

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/45000-fake-chinese-vertebrate-fossils-on-ebay/

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited January 2, 2016 by Oxytropidoceras

[Troodon]

It will continue to grow until buyers stop bidding, they are in it for the profit. The industry model, Morocco appears to be profitable and continues to grow with improvements in their fabrication techniques and cool looking "fossils". Their target market is not focused on the experienced fossil collector but those that are new to fossils, those needing gifts, those wanting art and small retailers that need some pizzazz in their shop. It works, why they are still around...

[Fossildude19]

Uggghhh!

[Malcolmt]

There is one born every minute.....

[RJB]

It actually looks purty cool. I would not buy it, but still.

RB