[meteorite-list] Looking to repair a trilobite

[Darren Garrison]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:15:35 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>hello rob,
>first what do you have russion or morrocan trilobite,
>is it spiney trilobite or not?
>and if it's spiney trilobite i can  arrange here in morroco how you can get in touch with preparaters of trilobite with sandblaster,and microscope.they are excelent and not expenssive.

Yes, Moroccans are so good at repairing trilobites, they can build a whole new
one!  And very often do.

http://paleodirect.com/faketrilobites1.htm

http://www.geocities.com/mrbbug1/site17/webtv.netmrbbug2doc5.html

http://www.saharaoverland.com/faking_it.asp

http://www.fossilmuseum.net/collect/fake-trilobites.htm

My default position on Morrocan trilobites (after being burned more than once on
Ebay) is to assume fake until proven otherwise.  Just be glad they haven't
started making fake meteorites (yet).