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Fin Lover replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Baffled.... Carboniferous Pottsville Sandstone, Blair County, Pennsylvania (USA)
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That's a pretty neat sample, thanks. Certainly seems like a maybe.- 14 replies
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Thanks, I remember your finds but I had forgotten that I asked that. You wrote a separate trip report, somewhere other than here?
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Baffled.... Carboniferous Pottsville Sandstone, Blair County, Pennsylvania (USA)
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Well little or no lignin back then, I think. Wonder if that's an ingredient to patterning dry rot like this?- 14 replies
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Fossildude19 replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Snolly has been collecting fossils longer than you have been alive, I'll warrant. Humor and sarcasm are sometimes hard to interpret when English is not your first language. -
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Brevicolis replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Seems to look like, If i misunderstood there something. If that was really the Intention in buying it, i want to excuse myself. I thougth He was a new one who just fell into a moroccan mosa trap. -
Agree. Rugose coral.
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I don't think the Dremel is sturdy enough to use on Moroccan trilos. The matrix is notoriously hard, and difficult to prepare without professional level tools, but, I would wait for some other opinions. @Kane
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Fossildude19 replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Sir Snolly is much to savvy in the ways of fossil purchasing, to fall for such obvious fakery. I reckon his intention here was to highlight this little monstrosity (not the good kind) of forgery, and clue in some otherwise clueless would be purchasers. -
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trilobites_are_awesome replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
It appears like he bought it. Its definitely a composite. -
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JBkansas replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Those look like real verts. I mean, why waste them with such an obvious forgery, you might as well make the whole thing out of plaster. - Today
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Brevicolis replied to snolly50's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Piece of art or junk, whatever you want to call it Real teeth and bones, but ill guarantee you, they're most likely not from the same individual. They're just some random vertebras, bones, and teeth put together whith plaster. Please stay far, far, faaaaar away from it, and please dont buy it. -
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I have decided to cash in my IRA and put the money into this rare, baby Mosasaur, I feel in the long run, with appreciation of the rare piece, I can beat the 16.78% return I had last year in the stock market. I am impressed at how robust infant mosasaurs were. They were obviously strong swimmers from birth! In the off chance, that there may be a small amount of repair; I am posting it here for opinions.
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@minnbuckeye Yes that's better. Unfortunately that doesn't fit any of what we found at Yankeetown. Fully inflated usually means Agassizia clevei, but mouth and anis are not right. Next best guess is a large Fibularia Vaughani but the profile doesn't fit. Sorry can't really help.
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Real root on Moroccan Titanosaurid tooth ?
Brevicolis replied to Brevicolis's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Maybe throwing it in some acetone will show If its 100% real or not. But i hope this is real, because, i think you know why. It wasnt cheap. Thats all what i can tell.- 3 replies
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MrBones started following Can I prep Moroccan Trilobites?
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Hello everyone, I was wondering if it would be possible to prep Moroccan trilobites with my dremel 290 and ZoicPaleotech bits (and get decent results). I've been wanting to buy some unprepared specimens, but am unsure if I'd be able to do anything to them. Is there any particular matrixes or species you'd recommend? also, where would one aquire affordable, unprepared specimens? I'm not an expert fossil-prepper by any means (as you can tell by my current tools). Thanks in advance.
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I think it's a rugose coral. It looks to be a nice specimen missing just a bit of the tip.
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Hi everyone, I found this fossil at the beach in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland. It looks like a shell but I would like to know more about it! Thanks!
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Welcome.
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My two cents, if you want to illustrate something from scratch without blending in photographs: I agree with keeping more colours in the foreground and fading to the blueish tones in the back. Add some more details and textures to your creatures. Darken the shadows, both in the sand and other places, to create more depth, coherence and contrast. You could create layers of textures and blend them in at different levels to create depth. I also agree with the suggestion to add some large creatures in the foreground to create depth. They might also function as eye-catchers. Good luck!
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Hello and welcome to the forum from New York!
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