8-1/2" Ammonite Cross Section (with stand) Gift Certificates inside an underground limestone mine

inside an underground limestone mine sometime between 1770 and 1774

700 years ago

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

similarly to agate with a hardness of 6

8-1/2" Ammonite Cross Section (with stand) Gift Certificates inside an underground limestone mineAmmonites 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