Colorful Ammonite Fossil Collection

Spiral ammonite shells fill most of the frame, their ribbed surfaces painted in bold reds, blues, greens, oranges, and purples, each shell a slightly different size and hue. Scattered among them are trilobites with segmented, ridged backs, curved shark teeth in ivory and rust, tube-like belemnite fossils, and small chunks of honeycomb coral. Every specimen is outlined in black and rendered in flat, saturated color rather than natural stone tones, turning what would be a geology cabinet into a bright puzzle of shapes. The ammonites overlap in every direction, their spirals nested tightly enough that only slivers of the ones underneath still show. No sediment, tray, or shelf is visible anywhere; the fossils themselves make up the entire surface, edge to edge. The wide range of shell sizes, from small button-like spirals to shells the size of a fist, sets up a natural progression from big first hold to the smallest hunt.