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PostSubject: Fossil cast   Fossil cast EmptyWed Apr 20, 2022 5:58 am

I found this at a thrift store, appears to be a plaster cast of a fossil. Maybe a claw from a larger raptor. What do the letters and numbers painted on it mean?
Thanks! (know we have plenty of knowledgeable people here)
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PostSubject: Re: Fossil cast   Fossil cast EmptyTue May 24, 2022 8:09 pm

If it feels hollow and like plastic it is a cast (best way to find out is by checking if it burns with a lighter but that would risk damaging a really nice lookin cast), normally casts don't have such numbers written on them and the colouration also makes it look like a real fossil, but that is just me looking at a photo and when one takes the time, you can perfectly recreate the colouration of a real fossil, I could tell more easily if I was looking at it directly.
Could be a Utahraptor toe claw.
At first I thought Baryonyx thumb claw due to the size but Utahraptor toe claws are roughly that size too.
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PostSubject: Re: Fossil cast   Fossil cast EmptyWed May 25, 2022 5:00 am

A museum employee on another forum I'm on said it's definitely a cast, and the numbers are typical cataloguing information- at least here in the US. She said the code indicates it came from a school in Utah's paleontology department or the attatched museum. That would tend to support a Utahraptor cast!

It's a mystery how it ended up in a thrift store in Florida though.
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PostSubject: Re: Fossil cast   Fossil cast EmptyWed May 25, 2022 5:02 am

Thats a neat find! Delayed as my post is... it looks exactly like my Utahraptor cast I got at a museum, so that would be my guess. What a fun find!

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PostSubject: Re: Fossil cast   Fossil cast EmptyWed May 25, 2022 9:09 am

A magnificent cast !!!! In the photo it looks completely like areal fossile affraid

Congratulations with your great thrift store find Applause

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PostSubject: Re: Fossil cast   Fossil cast EmptyWed May 25, 2022 5:29 pm

Nice

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