Veracruz Amethyst

Veracruz AmethystOne of the most widely recognized and unmistakable minerals, Amethyst has been sought after since ancient times as a gemstone and decorative object. Amethyst is a form of Quartz which gets its beautiful purple tint from the substitution of silicone for iron due to irradiation. It is found in a wide range of shades from deep purple to pale violet and even pink, with color intensity usually deepest at the termination or tip of each crystal.

Amethyst has been sought after since ancient times as a gemstone and decorative object

Approx 420 million years old

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

It has a very dramatic "head shield" which is often interpreted as a mechanism to help it stay on top of a soft ocean floor

Approx size of fossil - 4

Ophiuroides sp

Brittle Starfish

Flexycalymene Trilobite Geodes are approx

these calymene trilobites are common in south eastern Tazzarine region of Morocco

from the Cambrian age

Flexycalymene Trilobite Fossils (Flexicalymene ouzregui) are approx

so much that the local tribes people used to use these mudstones as currency in trade and other daily life