Mosasaur skull discovery

This is a Mosasaur skull from the phosphate mines in Morocco, which I know is full of fake fossils. I suspect it is fake, but I'd like to know how to tell.

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It's best to think of this as an art piece, not a fossil. There's a lot of real mosasaur bone in that, but there's also a ton of bones carved from other bones.

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This museum-grade, fossilized Mosasaur skeleton is of the highest quality, measuring an impressive 6.25 meters. This genuine full-body Mosasaur ...

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Never buy a mosasaur skull unless you know what you're doing. Mosasaur skulls, large therapod claws, and dino eggs are 99% fake.

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I cannot be trusted with free will. It needs to be cleaned up and stained some, but this is a 1:8 scale replica of a mosasaur skeleton above my entryway.

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This 'Moss-a-saur' would have actually overheated in the balmy oceans of the Cretaceous, so they must have been just minding their own business.

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Definitely not 100% complete... there's quite a lot of restoration on it (Typical of a Mosasaur from Morocco), but it's in very nice shape.

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I took this photo a while back but unfortunately I've forgotten the location and classification of this skull. Comparing the skull to images ...

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This is most likely a replica. A complete mosasaur skull would be much more expensive and looking at this one , it screams fake.

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