Deep space in a shore stone.
Complete with swirling nebula, scattered stars and spiraling galaxies.
County Clare, Ireland.
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The night sky trapped in a shore stone.
A mix of carboniferous era marine fossils in a seaworn sedimentary pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.
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These fossilized Goniatite shells look like rock hieroglyphs that someone has etched in the stone.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Fossilized Crinoid stems and segments. Relatives of Starfish and Sea Urchins, this extinct species of Crinoid once covered the ocean floor in this area. We can find its fossilized remains scattered throughout the rocks in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Geopark.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossil in a polished shale pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A shore tumbled pebble packed with fossilized Goniatite shells. Dating back to the Carboniferous era over 300 million years ago - the warm seas that once covered this area teemed with these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Galaxies spiraling through a star speckled sky.
Goniatite fossils of varying sizes in a sea smoothed stone.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A fossilized piece of a Calamites plant. Over 300 million years ago, when this area was a tropical delta, these giant relatives of modern Horsetail plants thrived.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossils, formed over 300 million years ago, looking almost as surprised to see me as I was them 🤣
County Clare, Ireland.
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The night sky in a sea polished pebble - complete with stars and spiraling galaxies.
Mostly fossilized Goniatite shells.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A teeny tiny Goniatite fossil. You can see the spaces where its gas filled flotation chambers would have been.
County Clare, Ireland.
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The outline of flotation chambers in a partial goniatite shell fossil.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossil in a dark shale teardrop.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Goniatite fossil, encased in shale and worn down by Atlantic waves to reveal this lovely cross section .
A spiral staircase winding its way down to a distant past.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Fossilized Crinoid stems and segments in a dark sedimentary stone. Looking like the scattered pieces of some long forgotten machine.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A couple of fossilized Goniatite shells swirling through this shore stone.
County Clare, Ireland.
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"Watchful Eye"
A Goniatite fossil peering from inside a sedimentary pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Fossil Crinoid stems and segments with a few fossilized Corals scattered throughout.
County Donegal, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossils - trapped in the shale layers that make up the Cliffs of Moher, for over 300 million years. Ancient residents of the shallow sea that once covered this area.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A surprise for both of us 😯
Goniatite fossils in peering out of a stormbeach stone.
County Clare, Ireland.
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