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Goniatite fossils - Ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam in the warm seas that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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The variety of size and orientation of these Goniatite fossils makes them look like celestial bodies suspended in the darkness of space.
County Clare, Ireland.

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The variety of size and orientation of these Goniatite fossils makes them look like celestial bodies suspended in the darkness of space.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Looks like he's spotted something worrying creeping up behind me 😯🤣🤣

Goniatite fossils in a shale pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Looks like he's spotted something worrying creeping up behind me 😯🤣🤣

Goniatite fossils in a shale pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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Celestial stone.
Goniatite fossils embedded throughout this shore stone looks like spiraling galaxies in deep space.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfectly positioned Goniatite fossil in the shore smoothed pebble. Wet and Dry.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfectly positioned Goniatite fossil in the shore smoothed pebble. Wet and Dry.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils spiraling through a piece of dark shale concretion.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossil revealed in a sea smoothed, stormbeach stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils spread throughout this piece of shale from the Cliffs of Moher. Evidence of lives lived on this same spot over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A fossilized Goniatite shell, with what were its gas filled flotation chambers nicely revealed.
Counry Clare, Ireland.

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A beautiful stormbeach Goniatite fossil, polished by Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized Goniatites like galaxies spiraling through space. Over 300 million years in the making.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Goniatite fossil - its internal flotation chambers preserved in stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils, studded throughout this piece of Carboniferous era shale.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfectly positioned Goniatite fossil - like a Superhero symbol in stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Shooting stars, spiraling galaxies and spinning planets.
A shore-stone packed with Goniatite fossils of various sizes and orientations. Just a small sample of the shells that littered the ocean floor here over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Partial Goniatite fossils, of various sizes, eroding from this concretion chunk.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossil in a dark shale concretion.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A spiral in stone - the fossilized remains of a Goniatite shell. Ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that lived in the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A spiral in stone - the fossilized remains of a Goniatite shell. Ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that lived in the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized Goniatite galaxies spiraling through the deep space of a dark sedimentary stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A fossilized Goniatite shell emerging from seaworn shore stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Goniatite fossil - with the internal chambers of its shell revealed in cross section.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A sea smoothed ball of Goniatite fossils.
The shells of ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam the seas over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A sea smoothed ball of Goniatite fossils.
The shells of ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam the seas over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A dark shale nodule studded through with white Goniatite fossils.
Their shells once lay scattered across the sea floor that covered this area 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A dark shale nodule studded through with white Goniatite fossils.
Their shells once lay scattered across the sea floor that covered this area 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A worried looking cluster of Goniatite fossils. 😯
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfect wee Goniatite fossil - preserved in stone for over 300 million years and eventually worn down to a pebble by Atlantic ocean waves.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfect wee Goniatite fossil - preserved in stone for over 300 million years and eventually worn down to a pebble by Atlantic ocean waves.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Goniatite fossil - although related to modern Squid and Octopus, this one looks like a mini Rams horn preserved in stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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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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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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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 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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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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It is a partially revealed Goniatite fossil.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Cephalopod coils.
Goniatites were shelled relatives of today's Octopus and Squid that swam the oceans here over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A shale piece packed full with Goniatite fossils. The divisions between their internal flotation chambers are clearly visible.
Their shells must have littered the ancient sea floor that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Spiraling galaxies in a pebble universe.

Goniatite fossils, marking the spots where these ancient creatures lay in delta sediments over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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300 million year old Goniatite fossil showing perfectly on the surface of this sea polished pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A scattering of white Goniatite fossils in a black shale pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A scene from a night sky complete with spiraling galaxies and stars trapped in this fossil filled stormbeach stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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"In a galaxy far, far away."
300 million year old Goniatite fossils make up a picture of an imagined universe in this seaworn stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Tiny Goniatite fossils scattered through this sea smoothed stone, giving an impression of depth and space. Makes you think about the time (over 300 million years) that has passed since these creatures lived and died in the waters that once covered this part of the earths surface. County Clare, Ireland.

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An almost perfectly centred spiral Goniatite shell fossil, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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The Night Sky - in a storm tossed pebble full of Goniatite fossils, over 300 million years in the making. County Clare, Ireland.

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A Galaxy of fossilized Goniatites.
Remnants of a 320 million year old marine ecosystem that covered the area when this part of the earths surface was sub-marine and much further South than it is today.

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Goniatite fossils peeking out from pebbles- seeing daylight after being buried in layers of sediment for more than 300 million years.
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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A storm beach pebble consisting almost entirely of Goniatite fossils!! County Clare, Ireland.

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