Veracruz Amethyst

Veracruz AmethystOne of the most widely recognized and unmistakable minerals, Amethyst has been sought after since ancient times as a gemstone and decorative object. Amethyst is a form of Quartz which gets its beautiful purple tint from the substitution of silicone for iron due to irradiation. It is found in a wide range of shades from deep purple to pale violet and even pink, with color intensity usually deepest at the termination or tip of each crystal.

Species - Scyphocrinites elegans

One of the most widely recognized and unmistakable minerals

Measurement is of box

This preglabellar ring (head shield) is covered in many sensory pits which may have held hairlike features when the trilobite was alive

Approx size of fossil - 4

Found inside of mudstone concretion nodules

From the Ordovician age

They were recovered from deposits in Morocco and date back to the late Cretaceous Period

449 million years old

with color intensity usually deepest at the termination or tip of each crystal

Metacanthian Trilibite from the Mid Devonian Period

from the Cambrian age