Beautiful A+ Quality Petoskey Stone Michigan Fossil Pendant
Contains beautiful sparkling quartz and dark petroleum spots.
Stone was hand polished, after being found on a Lake Michigan beach.
With safely secured sterling plate bail. Dimensions: 1.25 inches from top of bail x .75 inch wide x .25 inch widest point
Petoskey stone is a fossilized coral, the state stone of Michigan and is commonly found along the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron in the United States. It was formed by the fossilization of ancient coral, hexagonaria. These corals lived in warm shallow seas that covered Michigan during Devonian time, some 350 million years ago. During Devonian time, Michigan was quite different. Geographically, what is now Michigan was near the equator. The area covered by a warm shallow sea which was an ideal habitat for marine life. The name Petoskey is a derivation of the name Petosegay, the name of an Ottawa Tribe chief. The translation means “rising sun” or “rays of dawn”.
