Ammonite Earrings With Amethyst

Here is a unique pair of earrings featuring a real, 110 million year old cut, and polished ammonite fossil from Madagascar. This ammonite is accented with lab created citrine gemstones.

Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. Ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago and they barely survived several major extinction events. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.

Artists reconstruction of an ammonite. By Nobu Tamura

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