AMMONITE

Mineral characteristic.

Twisted into a spiral shell fossilized marine cephalopods ammonites are found in sedimentary rocks, limestone, marl and clay. Covered with mother of pearl and adorned with sculptural grooves of their shells look like works of art. In modern seas ammonites not. This group of fauna long since disappeared from the face of the Earth.

Ammonites - a giant extinct invertebrate mollusks distributed in the Mesozoic era (after the ancient Egyptian god Amun, is depicted with curled ram horns that resembles spiralnozavitaya sink many ammonites). ammonite shell was curled into a flat spiral. In the ancient seas of the Earth about 300 million years ago floated a thousand species of ammonites. Sedimentary rocks hold many fossils fossils of shells, which are found in many places on Earth. They lived from the Devonian period, the Cretaceous inclusive across the globe; We have an outer shell of various shapes, divided by transverse walls into a series of cameras, which are subsequently filled with a variety of minerals, such as simbirtsitom and sengilitom. The diameter of the shell reaches 2 m. With the passage of time and fossilized ammonites have changed a lot. Sometimes oral ammonites coated crystals of pyrite. Ammonites can remind usual stones or have jeweler value depending on minerals, their engorged.

Ammonites, including original form. Morocco. Photo: © AA Evseev.

The magical properties of stones.

Ammonite shells as a symbol of happiness and longevity. For many nations fossilized ammonites, fragments thereof, and products made of them are symbols of prosperity, family well-being and happiness. Depending on the properties of minerals, which will satiate the sink (pyrite, chalcedony, jasper, calcite, etc.). It gives vision and a sense of connection times. Dislikes competitors and Neighbourhood other stones (as pyrite or serpentine). Original and beautiful amulet and talisman has no restrictions on the signs of the Zodiac.

Very interesting and original fossils of the Carpathians, photos which were downloaded from the official website of the seller - ammonite imprints on the rock marl 10-15 cm in length, unlike other similar stones presented in the city Muchevo ( "Palanok" Castle) Transcarpathian region of Ukraine and given the photographs of our website. They are grayish-whitish distinctive appearance, which distinguishes them from the most common in the sale of bright color and Madagascar and Russian ammonite fossils.

They are so unlike fossils typical of other regions of Ukraine, I decided to make them stand out in a separate article of the site. It seems as if they "come out" from under the chisel of the ancient (Greek) or the Roman sculptor, although in fact skillful hands of man only helped to reveal the natural beauty of the original of the original stone.