Fossils

The combination of bright golden calcite crystals that gleam in the light with a million year old fo.....

Here's a beautiful polished fossil ammonite (one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mo.....

Fossil lovers love amber with bugs, and this one has lots of winged and crawly critters. Inside the .....

Here is a beautifully polished specimen of ammonite, a coiled shell mollusk that lived about 100 mil.....

This is an excellent specimen of a fossil leaf, Gymnocladus hesperia (a Fagaceae), from Utah's Green.....

This is a very good specimen of a 2.6" fossil ulmiaceae leaf, Cedrelospermum nervosum, from Utah's G.....

On this ammonite specimen, the fossil has been sawn in half and the inside surfaces are polished to .....

This is an excellent specimen of ammolite from Alberta, Canada - the only locality in the world wher.....

In 2009, Ruck's Pit was producing fabulous fossil clam specimens with an unusual twist: they had gol.....

This is an exceptionally detailed, large FOSSIL AMMONITE specimen taken out of a mine in Madagascar......

Here is a very nicely preserved section of a petrified tree trunk, the fossilized remainder of a tre.....

This is an excellent specimen of a fossil sumac leaf, Rhus nigricans, from Utah's Green River Format.....

This is a very good specimen of a fossil leaf, Aleophylus flexifolia, from Utah's Green River Format.....

Here is a breathtaking polished specimen of copal amber which comes from the world-famous amber digg.....

This is a fossil leaf of Rhus nigricans, which was a member of the sumac family.  It is from th.....

The clam shell fossil and calcite crystals on this specimen are fine examples of what came from Ruck.....

This is an excellent specimen of a fossil ulmaceae leaf, Cedrelospermum nervosum, from Utah's Green .....

This fascinating piece is both a mineral and a fossil specimen. The fossil clam is partly open, reve.....

Here is a polished log of petrified wood that is remarkably well preserved, with the much of the bar.....

Red ammonite from Madagascar is one of my favorite fossils, because of the rich, iridescent red colo.....