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At first, we did not think
much of it.
It looked like a regular piece of brownish amber. Not even very pretty,
although one side had been polished. But when we turned it around, the
surprise was complete. The secrete of this piece is a shell, a snail
house.
What makes it even more interesting is the fact that usually fossil
inclusions are only preserved inside the amber. This piece has the snail
house inside and out.
It eems that the resin
had flown into it, after the former occupant had moved out or died and
dried, or maybe the resin even suffocated the owner of the house.
It is also possible that the pressure of the resin cracked the shell,
especial when it hardened during these past 20-30 million years,
This specimens has been sold.
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The next specimen has a smaller snail.
The specimen you see here also holds 2 small spiders, a bee and an ant and probably more. It seems that it is part of one of those cemeteries you find sometimes, where a large drop of resin fell on the ground and covered whatever there was: moss, bark, leafs, twigs, insects and ... snails. The little piece is a small world by itself.
Click on
the picture to enlarge.
This specimen has been sold.
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The following specimen has 3 snails in pink amber.
Number 2
and 3 are only parcial, number 3 has been covered diagonal to the amber
flow.
But number 1 shows an interesting detail and we present a theory. The
amber, after extruding from the tree and falling onto the ground where
the snails got stuck, must have liquified again due to great heat.
The liquid amber filled the snail house and stayed yellow, whereas the rest of the amber changed color and turned pink. The snailhouse broke off, the amber stayed in in the form of the snail.
This specimen is for sale.
