Frankie2000 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Hello everybody, I come from Switzerland and I'm new in this forum, I start to collect fossils recently so I'm a real beginner but really like it ! I'd like to buy this '' fossil horn'', not really expensive but don't really know if it's true. the seller tell me it's a fossil rhino horn coming from south asia. Not really high: 16cm /6,3 inches What do you think ? Thank you !! The seller has a second one to sell , he tell me maybe a dinosaur bone ?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie2000 Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 Fossil rhino horn ? dinosaur bone ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Rhino horn is made of keratin and doesn’t fossilize. The first object is carved stone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie2000 Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) Hello Al Dente, Thank you for your answer ! What do you think of this one that I found on an auction in internet, seems ''stone'' too ? Edited February 4, 2018 by Kane Removed seller link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 I think all of these are just carved bits of stone. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie2000 Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 Hello thank you ! Yes the white one seems stone to me, But I didn't know what to think about the first one, the basis seems to me a true fossil ( but I repeat, I begin ) Sure fakes are everywhere ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Fist one is a real bone I think (maybe fossil maybe not) but not a horn. It’s got a joint on it, maybe a toe bone, looks like it’s been polished into a claw shape. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie2000 Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 And what about this one ? Sold as an asian rhino fossile horn in an auction in 2012 ''Corne de rhinocéros asiatique fossilisée'' Seems bone ? Kind regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Al Dente is correct about the composition of rhinoceros horn. The only authentic 'fossil' rhino horns that I'm aware of are those of the Woolly Rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) that are occasionally found frozen in permafrost. Unlike most 'horned' artiodactyls (deer, sheep, goats, etc.), rhinoceroses do not have bony horn 'cores' that fossilize reasonably well. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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