Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana

Fish Fossil - Knightia EoceanaDuring the Eocene, 40 50 million years ago, vast shoals of freshwater fish inhabited a large shallow inland sea across the American West. The herring like fish of the genus Knightia were far and away the most abundant freshwater fish during this era, and because of this they are one of the most frequently found vertebrate fossils on earth. Originating from the famed Green River Formation in Wyoming, fossils of Knightia eocaena and their close

Each specimen is expertly prepared

Copper is a so-called native metal

Chrysocolla is unique mineral prized as a precious stone since antiquity for use in jewelry as well as in goldsmithing

such as agates

high shine mica and range in hue from nearly clear to classic sea green to deep blue

fluorite specimens have been prized since ancient times and are now among the most popular minerals in the collecting world

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this piece consists of beautifully colored cluster of purple octohedral fluorite on a thick base of candle quartz - so named for the appearance of wax dripping down a candle down the crystal face

are found in a matrix of thick

These incredible specimens of natural uncut aquamarine from Mount Little Xuebaodoing in Sichuan

With a dazzling array of colors and crystal structures

first on the surface and then from the glittering pyrite within