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A trailer full of high-end fossils was stolen from GeoDecor at the Denver Show this week. Please keep a look out for them. This is a great family owned and run business. 5D384CF1-A5B3-47F9-9495-A0BC11570FDC.png.c72df7b1f100a4683d0ad8493409c062.png

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49 minutes ago, HamptonsDoc said:

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Wait, this was one of the stolen fossils? This is a Ptychodus marginalis, the most complete Ptychodus skeleton ever found anywhere, from the Buda formation in a Uvalde, Texas quarry. The DPS was in talks to get it into the Perot. 

 

Very sad :shakehead:

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Here is a link to a news article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/kdvr.com/2019/09/09/trailer-filled-with-fossils-valued-at-more-than-100000-stolen-at-aurora-hotel/amp/

 

Would it be helpful to have a new subforum to place the lost and stolen reports? Mindat has had one for years. Better visibility of the reports might make it more likely that the items will be recovered and may prevent more thefts.

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1 hour ago, DPS Ammonite said:

Here is a link to a news article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/kdvr.com/2019/09/09/trailer-filled-with-fossils-valued-at-more-than-100000-stolen-at-aurora-hotel/amp/

 

Would it be helpful to have a new subforum to place the lost and stolen reports? Mindat has had one for years. Better visibility of the reports might make it more likely that the items will be recovered and may prevent more thefts.

I thought the same... or maybe even a thread with pictures of stolen fossils to consolidate everything. 

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A sub forum for Stolen Fossils is really beyond the scope of necessity for the Forum.  :unsure: 

Sub forums are very rarely added, as we have the bases covered pretty well. 

 

While theft of fossils happens, it doesn't happen enough to require it's own pinned thread, or sub forum. 

As long as the words Stolen or theft are in the title, and the tags, it should be easy enough to search for the topics. ;) 

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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I'll never understand people unwilling to work or pay for what they want out of life.  As for the shark, I knew I'd seen that one before.  The DPS asked me for a sizable donation during a crowdfunding effort to obtain the shark for museum donation....but I'll soon be staring down my kid's college tuition, so no magnanimity or largesse from me this round.

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Holy cow!  A trailer of fossils stolen!   When I was young dumb and 19 I stole a bunch of stuff.  Couldn't sleep for 3 days.  I was a mess.  Took everything back and faced up to the people I stole from.   I remember it being one of the hardest things I had ever done but felt a ton of relief once done.  Never stole anything ever again.  Thiefs do not have the concience to do that and feel no remorse whatsoever.   I truly believe that thieves with a rap sheet should be put to death.   Im so sorry for these people at Geo Decor and hope with every fiber of my being that the perps will be caught.   RB for dictator!!!

 

RB

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  • 3 weeks later...

$100,000 worth of fossils stolen outside convention in Aurora

The theft included a 92 million-year-old shark specimen

The Denver Post, September 10, 2019

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/09/10/fossils-aurora-stolen/

 

Trailer filled with fossils valued at more than $100,000 stolen

 at Aurora hotel, Fox 31 - Channel 2 News, September 9, 2019

https://kdvr.com/2019/09/09/trailer-filled-with-fossils-valued-at-more-than-100000-stolen-at-aurora-hotel/

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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Topics merged.  :) 

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I don’t know if this has already been brought up elsewhere on TFF, but according to Roger Farish at Wednesday night’s DPS meeting, over a week ago the trailer was spotted sitting in the middle of a farmer’s field. When police investigated they found that it was being used to store the thief’s miscellaneous stuff, with all of the intact fossils pushed to the side. I suppose he thought that it would be a great storage trailer, and didn’t pay much mind to the thousands of dollars worth of fossils inside. 

 

Roger said that the DPS and Perot museum are now back on track to get the $50,000 raised to buy the Ptychodus marginalis specimen from the dealer and get it into the Perot’s permanent collection for study and display. It is the only known nearly complete Ptychodus. Roger thinks it is from the Eagle Ford, but on geological maps the quarry the specimen came from is shown in the Buda formation.

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Farmer's field!!  

 

Is H Ross Perot a very wealthy man?  Why does the Perot need to do fund-raising for a mere 50K?  

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7 hours ago, jpc said:

Farmer's field!!  

 

Is H Ross Perot a very wealthy man?  Why does the Perot need to do fund-raising for a mere 50K?  

My guess it's just an honorary name and they have to scratch and claw for funding like most museums 

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8 hours ago, Troodon said:

My guess it's just an honorary name and they have to scratch and claw for funding like most museums 

yeah, he probably put up the cash for the building then said... good enough.  

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1 hour ago, jpc said:

yeah, he probably put up the cash for the building then said... good enough.  

Yeah, he probably told them "I'm giving you 185 million dollars, but not a penny more". What a cheapskate! NOT!!!!!!!!

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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