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The Ammonite Pavement at Monmouth. Widely known for the fossils, and being the birthplace of paleontology. The fossils carried significance amongst men of the past too. Ammonites were once thought to be beheaded serpents/dragons. The pre Christians this as the proof of the miracles of the gods, amongst them likely Woden. After the suppression of pagan religion, this remained an area for Abrahamic pilgrims, whom adapted the traditional stories into ones about saints. Fossil

Ammonite
A fossil log from the Moreno Formation in the Panoche Hills, California, at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Seen during the UCMP's open house on Cal Day. Fossil

Petrified Wood

Formula
SiO2 replacement common
Mohs
7
Colour
Variable wood colours
Trilobite fossil at Desert Museum. Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. Fossil

Trilobite