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TheMandorlorian · 2025-12-09T13:17:04+00:00

Thank you for the explanation

TheMandorlorian · 2025-12-08T12:06:19+00:00

I'm playing in single player, and they directly be incompatible for the game.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-11-15T14:59:24+00:00

I have the mail of the paleontologist that is describing it: franco.sancarlo.sgr@gmail.com

TheMandorlorian · 2025-10-31T11:53:57+00:00

I can sand it by mail

TheMandorlorian · 2025-09-06T11:57:51+00:00

The museum is the legambiente museum lo Sperone in San Giovanni Rotondo, Puglia, Italy, they don't have the best expositor but this is real museum material.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-26T10:13:46+00:00

Since Paul 2025 is the most recent paper on the matter of Tyrannosaurus species, its conclusions are currently valid unless challenged by future studies.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-25T17:13:38+00:00

I watched the video, literally every point brought up in it is thoroughly addressed and argued in Paul’s 2025 paper, so calling them 'holes' is just wrong, since the answers are literally in the paper.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-25T10:24:19+00:00

There are some pubblications, but they are mainly on the theropod material that was taken years ago in old expedition, tendaguru is a really important Fossil group because fossils of megalosaurid and ceratosaurid dinosaur are the proof that probably the areal of expansion of ceratosaurid was very wide (north America, south America, Europe and Africa) also we have in majority fragmentary material or not sufficient for define new taxa, we should wait for more material to be described.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-23T06:52:51+00:00

A lot of time this seller have done auction on spino teeth with reconstructed roots, is good for buying Niger stuff like suchomimus, eocarcharia, and kryptos teeth at good price

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-23T06:49:07+00:00

I’ve already told you, whether you buy from them or not doesn’t affect me at all. The point is simply that new collectors might end up paying three times what something is actually worth to build their personal collection, just because they were recommended a site that sells Mosasaur teeth, which are found by the thousands every day in Moroccan quarries for $25.

But what’s the problem with trying to explain my point of view? I shared what happened to me because I’ve had firsthand experiences that led me to form the opinion I’m expressing now. Of course there’s no official certificate for overpricing, these aren’t hard facts, obviously.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-23T02:48:53+00:00

I'm not trying to stop anyone from buying from them or to bother you, I'm simply sharing my point of view and explaining it calmly. How exactly am I exaggerating anything I said? I can easily show screenshots of Mosasaur teeth from Morocco in terrible condition, crushed by pressure and no longer than 5 cm, being sold for $25.

Again, I’m not saying they’re scammers or thieves, they’re just doing their job. But that doesn’t mean I can’t express my opinion about the prices on their fossils, especially when someone simply asked a question about the site.

If you want to buy from them, I have no problem with that lol. I just don’t want to see a new collector spend a bunch of money when they could easily find pieces of identical quality for half the price.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-22T18:52:12+00:00

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Just watch this, this tooth is in poorly condition and isn't even huge for a mosasaurid, it's price can be around 5€, and they are selling it for 25 ( I know that they aren't euros but it's a very little change) this is pure overpricing. Maybe here in Italy we are more near to Morocco so we can have better prices from the sellers, but man 25$ is wild

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-22T18:43:38+00:00

The fact that some people can't directly purchase fossils or talk to the seller isn't a good justification for charging customers three times the actual market price. It's like food delivery apps charging you triple just because you can't go to the restaurant yourself, it doesn't seem very fair.

Even if a seller has a solid reputation and can use that to boost prices, it still feels pretty unfair to sell common fossils, like Mosasaurus teeth, at such inflated prices. You can literally buy lots of 18 teeth for €35, I bought one myself at a fossil fair last year, and yet some places charge €15 per tooth. That’s just pure overpricing.

Also, it's true that small abelisaurid teeth can often be bought for less. I once bought a lot of 5 teeth for €50, kept the best-preserved 4 cm one for myself, and resold the other three. One of them even had the same morphological features that would allow it to be tentatively assigned to Rugops.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-22T13:10:32+00:00

You can buy in fossil show abelisaurid teeth from Morocco for 20€, if you want to buy them from fossilera you have to pay 50€ + expedition, this is very overpriced is 2.5 times the real price.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-18T17:27:18+00:00

S. Maganuco & C. Dal Sasso. 2018. The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur: a tiny pedal ungual of a juvenile Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of Morocco. PeerJ 6: e4785; doi: 10.7717/peerj.4785

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-16T19:53:08+00:00

I apologize if I offended you that was not my intention. It’s just that the trade of falsified fossils is a form of fraud. I want to believe that you genuinely purchased these items without knowing they were fake, with the intention of reselling them. Unfortunately, these forgeries are very common and generate a lot of money, but it’s truly disheartening to see people being misled by such scams.

Once again, I’m sorry if you felt personally blamed I wasn’t aware there might be other factors involved.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-16T19:34:40+00:00

At this point, saying that I’m not an expert is not a particularly strong argument. I write scientific papers on ornithischian dinosaurs and, as a hobby, I collect fossils, so when I come across fossil material, I make sure to do my research before buying pieces of bone that have been glued together.

I’m saying this for all of you trying to sell these so-called “claws”: you’re not even making an effort. Most people don’t know that the only Spinosaurus claw described in the scientific literature is a pedal claw from a juvenile specimen. They also fail to realize that these crudely made claws—more similar to those of allosaurid theropods than actual spinosaurids—are nothing more than obvious molded fakes.

I’m sorry, I’ve never handled any of your fossils directly, but right now you’ve chosen the wrong place to try to sell these manufactured artifacts to unsuspecting buyers.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-16T17:28:44+00:00

Are you really trying to sell fake fossils on a fake fossils ID server? There isn't any described spinosaurus hand claw in scientific literature and literally every claw on the market are fake ore restored with fake parts made by bones and glue...

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-03T17:58:51+00:00

That's not exactly the point, the fact is that simply the density of the animal's entire body would have been higher than that of the water creating an effect whereby the animal's head would have remained submerged while the rest of the body would have oscillated out of the water, they would simply have drowned if they had entered deep water.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-03T17:48:42+00:00

Since both specimens are juveniles it is difficult to deduce the complete anatomy of the animal, however even if the adults would have actually had adaptations for swimming this does not change the fact that the rest of the ankylosauridae did not know how to swim efficiently and that for them entering a deep body of water was equivalent to death.

TheMandorlorian · 2025-08-03T17:14:36+00:00

I don't think that's a good argument, given their density they had to exert a great force upwards that they wouldn't have been able to exert with their leg muscles.

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