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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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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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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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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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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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Fossil Crinoid stems and segments with a few fossilized Corals scattered throughout.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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

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The ghostly impression of a fossilized Goniatite showing in this shoreworn shale pebble. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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A 320 million year old fossilized imprint of a Goniatite shell punctuates this pebble. County Clare, Ireland.

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