Unidentified medium fossil

Unidentified medium fossil
Released							7 September 2017 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Destroy							Drop
Examine							A medium-sized paleontological find ready for cleaning.
Values
Value							200 coins
High alch							120 coins
Low alch							80 coins
Weight							0.283 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							21564

An unidentified medium fossil is a fossil that can be obtained while performing activities on Fossil Island, including:

• Obtaining one as a drop from monsters on the island.
• Chopping Sulliuscep mushrooms in the Tar Swamp.
• Tracking a herbiboar's tracks in the Mushroom Forest.
• Looting giant clam shells and treasure chests underwater.
• Purchasing one from Mairin in her shop for 200 mermaid's tears.
• Mining the boulder while in the Volcanic Mine.
• Looting drift nets
• Digging in the soil at the Museum Camp
• Opening a Bowl of fish

They can be traded to the Fossil Collector in exchange for 200 numulites.

Cleaning

Before players can clean fossils, they must build the cleaning bench east of the Museum Camp using five planks, five nails and a hammer, granting 100 Construction experience. Alternatively, players can use the specimen table in the Varrock Museum.

To clean fossils, players must use the unidentified fossil on the fossil cleaning bench (or specimen table) while wearing leather boots and leather gloves and in possession of a trowel, rock pick and specimen brush. All of these items can be obtained by taking a cleaning kit from the wall in the Varrock Museum's cleaning area. Alternatively, a cleaning kit can be obtained from the crate on fossil island located directly next to the cleaning bench assuming that this cleaning bench is built.

Cleaning unidentified medium fossils will give the player a medium fossilised limbs, spine, ribs, pelvis, or skull. A set of these allows the player to place them in a medium display in the Varrock Museum's paleontology exhibit, located at the bottom floor of the museum, below the natural history exhibit. Doing so will give an antique lamp that gives 3,500 experience in any skill of level 30 or above, along with 2 kudos per display.

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Ammonite Crab	25	1	3/700
Ancient Wyvern	210	1	15/875
Ancient Zygomite	109	1	1/100
Bowl of fish	N/A	1	1/350
Deranged archaeologist	276	1	3/175
Drift net fishing		1	Unknown
Herbiboar	80	1	1/100
Hoop Snake	19	1	3/700
Lobstrosity	68	1	1/140
Long-tailed Wyvern	152	1	1/70
Soil Fossil Island		1	1/56,000
Spitting Wyvern	139	1	1/70
Sulliuscep	65	1	1/140
Taloned Wyvern	147	1	1/70
Tar Monster	132	1	1/140

See Fossil Island fossils for strategies on obtaining fossils.

Shop locations

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Seller	Location	Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at	Members?
Mairin's Market	Underwater	100	6s	200	N/A

Changes

Date	Changes
14 September 2017 (update)	The item's value was decreased from 500 to 200.

Trivia

• The fossil appears to resemble the Dome Fossil from the Pokémon franchise.