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

From the Ordovician age

honey gold Barite crystals atop a base of verdant green and purple Fluorite

Aquamarine is a form of Beryl crystal long sought after as a gem and precious stone due to its beautiful blue-green hue and clarity

As a mineral specimen stibnite crystals form intricate and almost otherworldly shapes

high shine mica and range in hue from nearly clear to classic sea green to deep blue

Typically found in intricate

many of which feature coatings of fine

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

it is largely mined as an industrial ore across the globe

During the Eocene

uniquely shaped pieces contain thin