8-1/2" Ammonite Cross Section (with stand) Gift Certificates

8-1/2" Ammonite Cross Section (with stand) Gift CertificatesAmmonites 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

700 years ago

inside an underground limestone mine sometime between 1770 and 1774

Mr Johnson then began to create a more "Western style" comprised of uniquely designed Petroglyphv (Anasazi drawings) work

That bone crushing jaw strength allowed it to commonly hunt whales for its meals

similarly to agate with a hardness of 6

and were a "flat fish"

Amber has the ability to preserve bits of forest debris from millions of years ago

small reptiles

Kyanite is also known as disthene

while others had large eyes with thousands of lenses which enabled the creature to see 360 degrees

Many times

these beautiful candleholders will radiate with a soft glow due to its translucency