LG Pyrite Sun / Miner's Dollar 5.30"

LG Pyrite Sun / Miner's Dollar 5.30"Rare, large very attractive, sculptural pyrite sun. Pyrite Suns Pyrite suns, also known as pyrite dollars, are fascinating and unique mineral formations of the shiny, metallic mineral pyrite (FeS), which is also commonly known as fool's gold due to its superficial resemblance to real gold. These formations are particularly associated with Sparta, Illinois, where they have been found in abundance and have a notable local significance. Formation of

discovered in northern Uruguay

but leading factors include: progressive global cooling and drying that transformed lush subtropical habitats into drier

Mosasaurs were the rulers of the Late Cretaceous seas

This caudal vertebra of an Ultra Rare Fossil Glyptodont was discovered in multiple fragments within a land site in SW Florida and subsequently reassembled

and Ankylosaurus

These teeth come from sharks that swam the warm coastal waters during the Pliocene era

featuring more heavily built skulls and jaws

That’s why so many Megalodon teeth—especially those sold along Florida’s Gulf Coast—trace back to the waters and sediments off Venice

not so much

and spotted black brown bourlette

in many ways

likely because its woodland habitat was less conducive to the bone preservation conditions found in pond and river deposits