[Rockhounds] Fake or Fossil? Ichthyosaur to ‘iffyosaur’

[Paul]

Fake or Fossil? Ichthyosaur to ‘iffyosaur’ Part #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okjpbpD_My0

Fake or Fossil? UV exposes plaster Part #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCss3BWohPI

Dean R. Lomax - Life as a palaeontologis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuR8gNE-GXYyiA8eE-5p2w

A published paper about composites is:

Massare, J.A. and Lomax, D.R., 2016. Composite
skeletons of Ichthyosaurus in historic collections.
Paludicola, 10, pp. 207-250.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303932537_Composite_skeletons_of_Ichthyosaurus_in_historic_collections
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judy_Massare

http://www.academia.edu/26087070/Composite_skeletons_of_Ichthyosaurus_in_historic_collections
http://brockport.academia.edu/JudyMassare

“…we describe nearly complete skeletons of the
Lower Jurassic genus Ichthyosaurus that are probably
composites or that, at least, require further examination
to assess their authenticity.”

Yours,

Paul H.