Beautiful Ammonite Pendant With Topaz And Garnet

This is a beautiful pendant featuring a real cut and polished ammonite fossil which is approximately 110 million years old. It is made out of sterling silver and features two stones, a smoky topaz and a garnet. This is an elegant piece of jewelry with some real natural history appeal.

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

Artist's reconstruction of an ammonite, by Nobu Tamura

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