Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana UV With a dazzling array of

With a dazzling array of colors and crystal structures

and is one of the more common gems although pieces of exceptional hue and clarity are considered fairly rare and can be extremely valuable

it is largely mined as an industrial ore across the globe

often including scale and other soft tissue traces against a high contrast laminated limestone slab

Fish Fossil - Knightia Eoceana UV With a dazzling array ofDuring the Eocene, 40 50 million years ago, vast shoals of freshwater fish inhabited a large shallow inland sea across the American West. The herring like fish of the genus Knightia were far and away the most abundant freshwater fish during this era, and because of this they are one of the most frequently found vertebrate fossils on earth. Originating from the famed Green River Formation in Wyoming, fossils of Knightia eocaena and their close