Mosasaur Teeth?

[Mark Kmiecik]

@Spoons Here's something cool you can try for yourself. Find some sandstone or any soft-ish kind of rock you can find that's about 6"x6" and relatively flat on one side. Find another, smaller piece of the same material. Crush the smaller piece any which way you can without losing any of the material until its down to the grain size. Using some Elmer's glue stick something to that larger piece, somewhere near the middle. Let it dry. Now spread a layer of glue about 1/16" thick over the surface of the piece right up to the edge of whatever you stuck to it and immediately cover the glue with the pulverized material you made. Let it dry. Shake and brush off the excess that's loose and voila! Home-made fossil!!! The second one you make can be a shark tooth stuck to a frog skull, etc. You get the idea. You can use similar techniques to make repairs to fossils that break or crack when being prepared, or to create "composite" fossils from bits and pieces of what you've found lying around, which sometimes ends up being pieces of different species, either intentionally or mistakenly. Unfortunately, much of the specimens coming from certain parts of the world are being forged in this manner. If you consider buying a specimen post as many photos of it as you can get on this forum to make sure it's legitimate.