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Mosasaur partial skeleton in matrix
Ged posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Saw this Mosasaur skeleton for sale and I've been thinking for a while something like it would be cool. Unfortunately the auction site it is listed on has a bad record of fake or manipulated fossils and Mosasaurs in particular. I'm even more worried due to it being from Morocco. I highlighted some of the photos where the bones don't appear to align right or seem to be composited. Does this look manipulated? are sections entirely fake? does the matrix look genuine? Also it is listed as a Halisaurus arambourgi is that the correct identification? Thank you for your thoughts. -
The niobrara chalk is the best, But what are the ten best creatures from it.
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I received this in small bulk lot owned by a relative of the seller. I am unsure on the location or if the tooth is in fact from a mosasaur. My reasoning for mosasaur is that it lacks serrations and it came with other cretaceous specimens, however the color is off for Morocco which are the specimens I am more familiar with. If it's mosasaur perhaps a location is will be possible as well? Best regards.
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Mosasaur tooth real or fake?
Rikache posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi everyone! I recently bought a collection of fossils that happened to include a Mosasaur tooth. I'm aware that Mosasaur teeth are very rarely faked since they're fairly common but mine has a "root". I was wondering if anyone could help me identify whether the tooth is real or not and if the root itself is authentic? Thank you! -
From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: Cranky’s album of fossils
A tooth belonging to the Mosasaur prongnathodon Giganteaus -
From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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I took a trip to the NSR in early February and here are my finds. All of the bones in picture 2 as well as the closeups, I'm assuming mosasaur, were found on the surface but all with in about 10 yards of each other. They were on the other side of the river from the large cliff face so they wouldn't have fallen out of the matrix from it. It was a remote large creek area so could have just been revealed from the ground slowly over time and no one found them until I came across it. The bones themselves were also different from other mosasaur im used to finding. They had a reddish tent to them and they had a rougher texture, almost a little sandstoneish. Maybe the fossilization process at this spot was a little different than the normal NSR fossilization. Im interested in pictures 3-5, is it a fossil or geological? Im also interested in pictures 6 and 7, coprolite? I know pictures 8-10 are geological but I thought they were pretty cool whatever they are. The rest are closeups of the bones. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.