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

Size with Stand- 14"x12

It rarely occurs in crystal form but is often found in botryoidal or fibrous formations

and pure white

The effect of this is a remarkable shimmer of gold shining through the blue facets of the fluorite

with the largest known being over 10 feet in length and weighing over 3 tons

Flexycalymene Trilobite Geodes are approx

fluorite specimens have been prized since ancient times and are now among the most popular minerals in the collecting world

flat barite crystals arranged in densely packed rosettes in hues of rose

These specimens of Mosasaur (Mosasaurus anceps) teeth are embedded in matrix

Calcite is a form of Calcium Carbonate and is one of the primary components in limestone

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

These incredible specimens of natural uncut aquamarine from Mount Little Xuebaodoing in Sichuan