Orthoceras Pendant - SOLD 2.40" cavebear Pietersite is a beautiful mineral

Pietersite is a beautiful mineral with brush-like streaks of blue

suggesting its origin point lies somewhere in the highlands

Eager kings looking to extend their authority continued military campaigns to the Holy Land

Their iconic body shapes have remain relatively unchanged through hundreds of millions of years

The region

Orthoceras Pendant - SOLD 2.40" cavebear Pietersite is a beautiful mineralOrthoceras was an Ordovician cephalopod with a calcium carbonate shell which provided excellent physical protection against their natural predators. This necklace is a fossilized shell from this animal that has been preserved in great detail. You can even see the individual chambers the nautiloid had in its shell. This pendant is a 2. 40" Orthoceras fossil with a fine sterling silver backing and an 18 inch chain of the same material.