A piece of a Common Piddock (Pholas dactylus) shell. Like the ribbed pattern on a Knitted sweater, this bivalve uses it rough outer shell to burrow its way into the rocks that it lives in.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Jaws!!!
A shark shaped hagstone - holes bored in shale layers by Common Piddocks (Pholas dactylus).
County Clare, Ireland.
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Fiadh, smiling through a Piddock hole on her beach walk.
County Clare, Ireland.
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An Angel wing shell - from a Common Piddock (Pholas dactylus). These are types of borrowing bivalves that bore protective tubes into soft rock types like shale and limestone. They also apparently glow in the dark!!
County Clare, Ireland.
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"Hagstone Hound"
Fiadh, captured through a piddock hole.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Partial and complete Piddock shells of various sizes. These marine bivalves use the rough outer surface of their shells to wear protective burrows in their rocky surroundings. They spend their lives in these burrows and enlarge them as they grow.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Common Piddock (Pholas dactylus) shell.
These bivalves use the ridged surface of their shells to grind out protective burrows in soft rock types (often shales and limestone).
County Clare, Ireland.
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Some say that geology is boring - and some say that geologists bother rocks. All we know is that this geology itself is bored.
It is a lump of London Clay that I picked up on the Essex coast. It was a uniform deep grey then but it has become desiccated. It didn't have those cracks when I picked it up, either. The holes are where it has been bored by piddocks - shellfish rather like clams. In their larval stage, the said piddocks settle on the clay and other soft rocks and burrow as they grow.
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