Acrioceras sp. - Heteromorph Ammonite bf0f07907918b7d6cd06e267380e6b85

Acrioceras sp. - Heteromorph Ammonite bf0f07907918b7d6cd06e267380e6b85Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals in the Cephalopoda class. They are invertebrates and are more closely related to coleoids (squids, octopus, and cuttlefish) than they were to the chambered nautilus, even though they looked much more similar to the later. The name Ammonite was derived from "ammonis cornua," translated to mean Horns of Ammon. Ammon was an Egyptian god that was typically depicted wearing ram horns, whose spiraled shape is

This hunter / scavenger was literally a walking tripod

it would help prevent them from becoming intoxicated

Smoky quartz is a brown to black variety of quartz

A very cool shape to accent a piece or stand alone

Apophyllite frequently occurs in zeolite minerals in basalt

forming a concretion

The array of coloration in the layers of onyx is simply amazing

From around 54 million to 10

The mineral got its name from the Greek words for "to see" and "through" because of the ability to see internal cleavage planes of the small crystals

each piece is handcrafted using very simple tools

It was found in Boleo

which are magnified 10x to grade their clarity