Fossil Goniatite Pendant - Sterling Silver

This is a pendant made from a 400 million years old, polished Goniatite fossil from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The setting has been created using .925 sterling silver.

Goniatites possessed a shell, which is divided internally into chambers filled with gas for buoyancy. An open chamber at the front of the shell provided living space for the animal. The general morphology and habit of goniatites was probably similar to that of their later relatives the ammonites, being free swimming and possessing a head with two well developed eyes and arms.