Peanut Wood Fossil Pendant - SOLD 1.78" rockinaboxcone Above: Front of the Specimen

Above: Front of the Specimen Card

These large herbivores ate twigs

All additional components of the jewelry are also sterling silver

amber has been mined from seams of lignite interbedded with clay and shale

72" fossil fragment of the Dimetrodon's iconic spine

Peanut Wood Fossil Pendant - SOLD 1.78" rockinaboxcone Above: Front of the SpecimenPeanut wood is a special type of fossilized wood which contains several silica "peanuts" within the material. These features were created when shipworms ate holes in prehistoric driftwood. Then, mud filled with tiny protozoa with silica skeletons filled these holes, eventually fossilizing into unique patterns within the wood. This material is known from the Windalia Radiolarite Formation in western Australia and dates back over 112,000,000 years to