Round Ammonite "keep sake" boxes e3071008a01fc13648fd9ba36b078342 Amber is the fossilized resin

Amber is the fossilized resin of a variety of ancient species of coniferous and flowering trees

It needs a lot of rain to grow and produces the fruit “mococha” which contains the Tagua nut in clusters

Streaks of warm browns and reds are indicative of iron oxides intermixing with quartz and other minerals during a specimen's fossilization process

specimens such as this are highly collectable

Billions of years ago

Round Ammonite "keep sake" boxes e3071008a01fc13648fd9ba36b078342 Amber is the fossilized resinAmmonites are an extinct group of marine animals in the Cephalopoda class. They are invertebrates and are more closely related to coleoids (squids, octopus, and cuttlefish) than they were to the chambered nautilus, even though they looked much more similar to the nautilus. The name Ammonite was derived from "ammonis cornua," translated to mean Horns of Ammon. Ammon was an Egyptian god that was typically depicted wearing ram horns, whose spiraled shape