Description
Ammolite Shard (251118s)
- Name: Ammolite
- Age: Late Cretaceous 76-70 Million Years
- Formation: Bear Paw Formation
- Location: Alberta Canada
Found in the remains of an Inland Sea that once divided North America known as the Bear Paw Sea, ammolite is what happens when ammonites (a nautilus like sea creature) dies in the right conditions to make opal crystals. The outer shell of the animal becomes mineralized as opal creating stunning visuals or reds, yellow, oranges, and sometimes rarely purples and blues.
- Items have been cut, polished, and applied with mineral oil to bring out their natural colors and patterns. These are great for display, turning into jewelry, or as a teaching tool on the process of fossilization and its many forms
