Ammonite Nautilus Opalised Fossil | Sacred Spiral

🌀 Comes with stand pictured.

⚖️ Weight: 586 gms

📏 Size: 8.3cm x 10.8cm x 5.2cm 

🌍 Source: Madagascar

🔮 Ammonites: The Flow of Ancient Tides

💙❤️ Third Eye & Root Chakras

Ancient symmetry, reborn in light.

These opalised Madagascan Nautilus fossils reveal the Earth’s quiet brilliance, each one a 120-million-year-old testament to evolution, time, and natural geometry. Their polished surfaces showcase soft iridescence, while their internal chambers glow with calcite inclusions, crystalline remnants of the ocean’s patient artistry.

The Nautilus is among Earth’s oldest living lineages, virtually unchanged for over 400 million years. Its fossilised relatives, like these Madagascan specimens, are windows into prehistoric oceans of seas once alive with intelligent cephalopods that would one day inspire modern squid and octopus.

When these creatures sank to the ocean floor, the slow alchemy of fossilisation began. Minerals such as calcite, aragonite, and silica replaced the original shell, forming opalised layers that now shimmer with subtle rainbow tones. Polishing reveals their perfect curvature and intricate chambers , each one a record of the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio that defines balance and beauty across all creation.

The Nautilus shell embodies sacred geometry, the eternal spiral that mirrors growth, harmony, and universal order. Its form is both mathematically precise and spiritually symbolic, reminding us that expansion and evolution are part of every cycle of life.

Sourced from Madagascar’s northwest coast, these fossils are prized worldwide for their remarkable preservation and unique opalised finish. Whether viewed as geological art, sacred design, or ancient relic, they bridge the worlds of science and spirit, a perfect fusion of intellect, elegance, and Earth’s timeless intelligence.

A collector’s piece for those who appreciate the poetry of nature written in stone.

🌀 Fossils

Fossils are life forms of either plants or animals that have been captured within an impression and preserved usually within the sedimentary rocks. Another type of fossil is resin fossilization where insects and plants are embedded within amber.

Most fossils are just casings or cavities of what was, and the soft parts of the animals and plants are rarely preserved due to certain salts and minerals breaking down the organic matter within.

Now another type of fossil can be completely replaced by an imprint or impression of the original shell, animal or plant within sedimentary rock or hard rock such as petrified wood.

Lastly a process called mineralization, is where an entire cavity can be completely replaced meaning if it was a shell, it would have completely dissolved. Through this process certain acids and solutions penetrate the cavity and form a new matrix within the cavity creating a 3D version of the shell itself.