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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Fossilized plant material, possibly Calamites (An ancient relative of today's Horsetail plants), eroding out of the stone layers at the base of the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A piece of pyritised (fools gold) fossilized Calamites. These were large ancient relatives of the Horsetail plants we see today.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Calamites fossil in a shale layer. Calamites were like giant ancient versions of the Horsetail plants that we commonly see today.
County Clare, Ireland.
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"In an effort to learn more about the #fossil, WVVA News tracked down a local geologist with expertise in #mining by the name of John Rusnak. He said the mine in which the fossil was found, Eccles number six, is 315 million years old -- a time period that pre-dates the #dinosaurs. He said the more likely explanation for the fossil would be that it comes from a #calamites stem -- a common #plant from that time period."
