New Members alberto flores Posted September 9 New Members Share Posted September 9 hello i see this mosasaur in a shop, they told me is an 80% real fossil and the rest is rebuild and don´t know what species it is, we think it may be a hoffmani specimen, but if you can help me i will thank you so much the skull is aprox 40 cm long (15.7 inch) 2979029f-3a1a-4f85-9fc6-81672641e353.jfif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 many bones seem to be real and many bones from the skull, too. Teeth are mounted (most of them). I am sure it is a mixture with lot of original parts, but not the original skeleton as it was when it got petrified... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Sadly I don't think this is 80% original. 1 -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Sorry, but it seems to have bit of bones constructed to look like a skeleton. Skull anatomy does not add up. There's no such thing as too many teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kohler Palaeontology Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 (edited) Does look constructed but just for the record, go to this. I am currently away on a trip, so I have to use a phone I never use so I don't know how to do a proper link on it. This will have to do. Edit: nevermind, it works. https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/35999-moroccan-mosasaurs/ Edited September 10 by Kohler Palaeontology 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kohler Palaeontology Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Do the teeth look added, not an actual par of it, also, some parts of the mounting frame could have been done better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 12 hours ago, rocket said: many bones seem to be real and many bones from the skull, too. Teeth are mounted (most of them). I am sure it is a mixture with lot of original parts, but not the original skeleton as it was when it got petrified... I echo these sentiments. Quite a bit of this art piece is made up out of original fossil material - though I'd say far from the 80% that's being claimed - and the overall piece doesn't look entirely anatomically correct (it's more of an approximation). And, indeed, most of the visible teeth appear to have been placed. As a consequence of the chimeric nature of the beast, identification won't be possible. At best: Fantasticosaurus creativicus. 2 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 7 minutes ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: At best: Fantasticosaurus creativicus. great name, lets do a new papers for the Mosa-Meeting next week 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kohler Palaeontology Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 I think for the flipper bones they got a steel rod, put the fossils on it and literally wrapped some more steed rod around the bones, maybe the bones are even glued on. Not the best. But yes, I agree with the ID of it being a Fantasticosaurus creativicus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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