Beautiful Sapphire with inclusions + UV florescence

Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a brachiopod from the Burlington Formation with some interesting traces on it. Attachment scars???

Pretty piece of opal

#Chione with a failed drill hole
#fossilsofflorida
#oichnus

#Antigona lamellaris from Thailand
#veneridae

Happy #molluscmonday
#Noetia ponderosa and friends from Tampa FL
Let's see, we have some #polydorid borings, worm tubes, maybe an oyster cemented on the inside

Pink Sapphire with a lot of inclusions. Having little Fe allows Chromium to show florescence with UV

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out these beautiful #Mississippian #crinoids from Missouri

ornamental tree trunk spider and kids

Cool inclusions

Almandine

We talked about clams!

Bicolor corundum ( Ruby - Sapphire)

Pink Sapphire

Beautiful blue sapphire

😊😊

Laevistrombus canarium with a gorgeous worm tube

Wow! Thank you so much 😊 😊
They make beautiful tubes

Much more clearer...

For #wormwednesday, here is a
beautiful collection of encrusters ...
#Bryozoans #spirobid? worm tubes and a petal like #foraminifera all preserved thanks to a cool clam 😄

Pink Sapphire

My dad wants me to get into gemology and gave me a few samples to get my eye in. At present, I can confidently differentiate clams with Sapphires 😄

Blue Sapphire

Botryoidal chalcedony?

Please do come! We have so many yummy varieties... 😊😊

Garnets...

Hello
Does anyone have access to the description of the bivalve Alaona ( Tellinidae) M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015?
Thank you 🙏

Cute little foram from Negambo, Sri Lanka
#foraminifera
#foramsofsrilanka

Happy #FossilFriday and #ForamFriday
Check out these beautiful #fusulinids found on a bench in downtown #Columbia #Missouri #indexfossil #foraminifera
#urbanpaleontology

Happy #molluscmonday
Well not a mollusc but a mollusc made product.
#pearls can form as a response to an intruder, a parasite a sand grain etc. I believe this is a #boroque pearl
So here is one more reason to appreciate cool molluscs