Horseshoe Crab with Modest Color Enhancement

[Lucid_Bot]

This piece is supposedly a horseshoe crab ( Mesolimulus walchii) from the Solnhofen limestone of Germany. It is Jurassic and the description says there has only been mild color enhancement. Is this fossil real? Any fabrication? Thanks for the answers!

[JamieLynn]

oh my. I suggest googling other mesolimus walchii fossils and notice the difference. This seems to be the colorized outline of said horseshoe crab.. I see nothing fossil here except the shape.  I would even hesitate to label it "art". 

[Lucid_Bot]

7 minutes ago, JamieLynn said:

oh my. I suggest googling other mesolimus walchii fossils and notice the difference. This seems to be the colorized outline of said horseshoe crab.. I see nothing fossil here except the shape.  I would even hesitate to label it "art". 

Wow. This guy sold me a fake before. I thought maybe he just made a mistake. Thanks for letting me know.

[Danielb]

2 minutes ago, Lucid_Bot said:

Wow. This guy sold me a fake before. I thought maybe he just made a mistake. Thanks for letting me know

Never buy fossils from a sketchy dealer.

[trilobites_are_awesome]

This is completely painted and thus fake. Sorry!

[Fossildude19]

31 minutes ago, Lucid_Bot said:

Wow. This guy sold me a fake before. I thought maybe he just made a mistake. Thanks for letting me know.

 

 

Please keep your comments focused on the fossils, NOT the sellers.
Thank you.

 

@oilshale  @rocket

[rocket]

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly fake, wow. One of the most ugly one I have ever seen.

when you love to collect total fake fossils, buy it. but, at the price of the stone, in this size you can buy them in germany at around the price of a coffee...

[oilshale]

Yuk!