Description: Fossil Dinosaur Gem Bone Set-SS56-Jurassic/Morrison Formation. SS56- Set of Two Outstanding Gem Bone ! These are from the same specimen. Smooth both sides. I’ve included several photos of these dry, because the color and webbing pattern/cell structure is so beautiful. Weight: 33.79 Grams. Piece A-Front - rust, rose, ruby reds light grey, amber and crystal cells, surrounded by off-white to light tan webbing. There is a condensed cell area in the upper right corner that forms a Y shape, and light pink (wet) and dry it looks tan. The Back- Has more ruby-red and tan cells, with some nice orange cells too. The webbing is smaller with more orange-tan coloring. Base- 1 5/8 X 1 1/2 Tall -left edge through center of piece. Angled (right edge) 1 3/4 inches. Uniform 1/4 inch thickness. THE TOP/Front is 1 1/4 Wide; the back/Top is 1 1/8 wide. Piece B-Front - Dry-the cells look dark brown, rust, ruby-red with a tan swirl at the top. Webbing is off-white to tan. WET- what looked dark brown turns to a bunch of crystal cells with light grey around them, and some charcoal-colored cells swirling down to ruby-red, pink and garnet-colored cells in the right/bottom corner. BACK- Dry- a lot more rust cells and blacks. WET- Again the rust turns to ruby reds, garnet-color, and the blacks reveal grey and smokey-colored cells with some crystals.Base 1 3/4 wide X 1 inch wide at top. Left edge 1 3/4 Tall; Right/angled edge 1 1/2 Tall. Uniform 1/4 inch thickness. Again, I’ll say - I have no idea how much detail of the individual cells show up when a piece is polished and coated because we are looking at magnified pieces (both how the camera sees it, and the computer shows it.) By my way of evaluating - if a piece is showing distinct color and webbing when dry, it’s going to show great color and pattern when treated. I am not a jeweler - please, if you are, and I’m wrong, tell me! Utah is the site of the earliest Morrison dinosaur discovery, Dystrophaeus viaemalae, a sauropod dinosaur discovered on the 1859 Macomb Expedition to southeastern Utah.Although Utah is most famous for its Morrison Formation dinosaur fauna, Utah has a prolific fossil record that spans the entire "Age of Dinosaurs." The dinosaurs thrived for over 150 million years. The fluvial (stream-deposited) sediments of the Morrison Formation dominated the Upper Jurassic landscape of eastern Utah. Originating approximately 150 million years ago as floodplain deposits, the Morrison Formation is exposed throughout the Colorado Plateau, including Colorado, Wyoming, eastern Utah, northern New Mexico, parts of Montana and South Dakota, and the panhandle of Oklahoma.The well-known Morrison dinosaur fauna includes Utah's official state fossil, the meat-eating theropod Allosaurus; other theropods, including Ceratosaurus, Stokesosaurus, and Marshosaurus; the sauropod dinosaurs Apatosaurus (commonly known as Brontosaurus), Camarasaurus, and Diplodocus; and the ornithischians Camptosaurus, Dryosaurus, and Stegosaurus.
Price: 30 USD
Location: Moab, Utah
End Time: 2023-12-24T20:24:00.000Z
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