Gem Animal: Brontosaurus

The likeness of a brontosaurus has been hand carved from onyx marble by Peruvian artisans. Prehistoric stone animals fit easily into gift baskets and shadow boxes and are fun to create a scene when put in plants, in the window or a Zen garden.

Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue). Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white. Onyx is thought to increase regeneration, happiness, intuition and instincts.

The brontosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur that lived in the late Jurassic period. This large, long-necked creature lived in what we know today as the United States.

Approx. 3 cm in height x 3.5 cm long.