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

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

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

Aragonite is an incredibly variable mineral

Natural copper is relatively soft and often found in intricate and unique structures

Beautifully preserved on slabs of flat shale

These well preserved and larger-sized fossils originate from the Monterey Formation in California

These Incredible specimens of natural uncut aquamarine from Mount Little Xuebaoding in Sichuan

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

Amethyst is a form of Quartz which gets its beautiful purple tint from the substitution of silicone for iron due to irradiation

the so-called “Benz” calcite comes from specific formations in Hubei

With a dazzling array of colors and crystal structures

The famed “fool’s gold”