Real or Fake fossil?

[Megalosaurus]

Hello.
I've seen a lot of nothosaur fossils in eBay. And I want to have your expert eyes to tell me if these are real or fake:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHIBIAN-VERTEBRA-NOTHOSAURIA-JURASSIC-HYPHALOSAURUS-DRAGON-FISH-INSECT-FOSSIL6-/142369406449?hash=item2125e0bdf1:g:0IgAAOSwhQhY2xYq
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHIBIAN-VERTEBRA-NOTHOSAURIA-BONE-JURASSIC-PLANT-HYPHALOSAURUS-DRAGON-FOSSIL6-/262963031797?hash=item3d39d16ef5:g:l9wAAOSwhQhY1TqP
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHIBIAN-VERTEBRA-NOTHOSAURIA-BONE-JURASSIC-HYPHALOSAURUS-DRAGON-FISH-FOSSIL6-/252917882102?hash=item3ae3149cf6:g:NIoAAOSwkShZADh0

Example:

[ceratopsian]

To my (admittedly amateur) eye, they look highly suspect.

[Ravonium]

I think this forum has had at least one discussion about a similar fossil before (I know I wasn't a member back then, but I was a lurker) and it was found that the fossil was probably fake.

To sum my thoughts on this fossil up here is a post that stargatedalek made on the similar thread I mentioned earlier.

Either it's a fake, or someone risked their life smuggling it out of China. Make of that what you will for your odds.

[DinoToyForum]

You don't need expert eyes to tall that they're all fake.

[Lanthanotus]

They certainly look better than a good deal of pricy fossil reproductions.

[SBell]

That quality, for that price? Fake.

[Simon]

Hello.
I've seen a lot of nothosaur fossils in eBay. And I want to have your expert eyes to tell me if these are real or fake:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHIBIAN-VERTEBRA-NOTHOSAURIA-JURASSIC-HYPHALOSAURUS-DRAGON-FISH-INSECT-FOSSIL6-/142369406449?hash=item2125e0bdf1:g:0IgAAOSwhQhY2xYq
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHIBIAN-VERTEBRA-NOTHOSAURIA-BONE-JURASSIC-PLANT-HYPHALOSAURUS-DRAGON-FOSSIL6-/262963031797?hash=item3d39d16ef5:g:l9wAAOSwhQhY1TqP
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMPHIBIAN-VERTEBRA-NOTHOSAURIA-BONE-JURASSIC-HYPHALOSAURUS-DRAGON-FISH-FOSSIL6-/252917882102?hash=item3ae3149cf6:g:NIoAAOSwkShZADh0

Example:

I think the key hint is in the description:  "Archosaur fossils are produced in Liaoxi China" 

"Caveat Emptor" (Let the buyer beware) 

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Another telling issue...read through the feeback seller has...some neutrals and negatives and all revolve around the item being a....fake. Ouch

[Dinoguy2]

They certainly look better than a good deal of pricy fossil reproductions.

Yeah, I guess they look better as in more authentic material etc., unless your standard is having bones that actually look like the bones they're supposed to be instead of little squares and rectangles... the skeletal anatomy of some of these fakes looks worse than those wooden dinosaur skeleton kits.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Yep, definitely fake. I never buy Chinese "fossils" for this reason (only exception are my jianghanicthys and even then they're iffy).

[Megalosaurus]

Thank you very much.
Yes, it was so good to be true.
What a shame people do this forgeries.

[Tyto_Theropod]

It is indeed. My advice would be to be very suspicious of all Nothosaur fossils, especially Keichosaurus hui, unless you absolutely, utterly, totally and completely trust the dealer. And unless you know them personally and have seen them digging up fossils, it's always going to be hard to know for sure whether every single fossil they're offering is genuine. In general, I'd say to stay away from ebay as I've seen so many forgeries on there - including one seller who sold a line of resin casts that you can buy from many museum and toy dinosaur shops, overpricing them and claiming not only that they were genuine but that he'd found and prepped some of them himself. I believe that in the end someone called him out on this and he claimed that yes, of course they were replicas and both he and his buyers were well aware of this. This clearly wasn't true, and when called out again he changed his story and said he was very sorry and he didn't know they were replicas. Hmm...