uncut Ammonite with rainbow flash, natural aperature, & exposed suture; Madagascar ferruginous

uncut Ammonite with rainbow flash, natural aperature, & exposed suture; Madagascar ferruginousAmmonites are fossilized cephalopod; extinct marine animals that lived in shells during the Early Cretaceous period, roughly 110 million years ago. These Cleoniceras; coil shelled, many tentacled mollusks disappeared after the dinosaur killing asteroid strike, in one of the worst mass extinctions of all time. This ammonite is mostly still in its chambered shell; that shell has built up micro layers of nacre (aragonite), and when light hits the stacked

In one area the shell was removed and you can see the squiggles- which are the suture lines

Atlas Mountains

Soft lavender purple with small spots or specks that are often called “radiation burns” but are actually impurities such as pyrite or chalcopyrite embedded in the fluorite

Lusterous & double-sided “grape agate” from Indonesia

The matrix is also pretty

This single selenite on matrix is like glass- it is so clear you can see the earthy matrix through the body of the crystal

Can be displayed a variety of ways

Yunnan Province

Specimen measurement is 3

Self standing but will come with a small plastic stand

Beautiful display and highly collectible

This is the same epidote found in “Fairy Forest Epidote & Quartz” but this extra small cabinet specimen is just epidote and has larger blades than we usually see with the material