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

Ophiuroides sp

Copper is a so-called native metal

reminiscent of the famed logo of Mercedez Benz

which over the course of millions of years becomes solid while retaining the semitransparent yellowish hue of tree sap

from fine crystal to botryoidal (spherical/nodular)

Aquamarine has a hexagonal crystal structure and is highly prismatic

where early very productive copper mines supplied much of the ancient world with the material

It has a long archaeological record of human use as a cutting or carving tool

Typically found in intricate

botryoidal crystal formations

A vivid and richly colored copper-based mineral

This Fossil has been broken and repaired