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Close-up of a cut brachiopod shell in rock: wavy dark grey and silvery layers rimmed with rusty orange, above a band of glassy brown grains and a striped shell fragment. — Altered Tremadocian brachiopod, Ülgase, Estonia Sophie Graul

White limestone sample on a blue background with two red boxes linked to enlarged insets showing tiny fossil shells, one rounded with radiating ribs. — Foraminifera Fossils in Limestone from El Kharga Oasis, Egypt Ahmed-M- Mohy

Close-up of pale cream and brown fossil coral rock, its surface covered in tiny round pores and pitted with larger dark holes and cavities. — Fossilized Coral Reefs, Al-Naizak Crater Lake, Marsa Alam City, Red Sea, Egypt Metwally Hamza

Close-up of a polished cross-section of shelly phosphorite: long banded white, grey and black shell fragments packed among small glassy rounded quartz grains, with a few rusty orange patches. — Cross section of shelly phosphorite from Ülgase, Estonia Sophie Graul

Close-up of an elongated dark blue-grey shell fragment with fine glittering dark bands, surrounded by clear glassy quartz grains and a pale cement. — Pyritised brachiopod shell fragment from the Toolse phosphorite deposit, Estonia. Sophie Graul

Close-up of shelly phosphorite: upright brachiopod shell fragments with grey, white and brown stripes, set in white crystalline carbonate cement against a blurred grey background. — Carbonate-cemented shelly phosphorite Sophie Graul

Close-up of many thin, elongated shell fragments in grey, black and cream, lying roughly parallel in a sparkling white crystalline cement. — Carbonate-cemented shells in Estonian phosphorites, from the Toolse deposit Sophie Graul

Close-up of shiny grey and dark blue brachiopod shells with fine growth lines, embedded in pale sandy rock among small black fragments. — Estonian shelly phosphorites Sophie Graul

Thin-section micrograph of large grey striated crystal blades separated by dark blue gaps, above a mass of small pale blocky crystals with brown rims. — Glendonite's insides Sophie Graul

Close-up of a fossil coral colony whose surface is covered in a honeycomb of small round pits, with a coin bearing Arabic text resting on it for scale. — The Original Photo of Coral Fossilized Colony Metwally Hamza

Hand holding a fossil cone snail shell, smooth and cream-coloured on one side and crusted with porous sandy rock around the spire and the opening. — Big Attractive "Conus" Species, A Member of Gastropod Family Metwally Hamza

Pale limestone ridges folded into steep, curving bands on scrubby hillsides lit by low evening sun, with a dark green pine forest along the bottom. — La Olla, Aliaga Geological Park Elena Núñez-Guerrero

Thin-section micrograph of nummulite limestone: a large lens-shaped fossil shell in orange and cream bands around a round central chamber, below a grey ribbed disc-shaped shell, in a dark matrix of shell fragments. — Tertiary Flying Saucers Bernardo Cesare

Thin-section micrograph of fossil dinosaur bone: a net of yellow and orange bone walls around pores filled with blue, purple and pink crystals, beside a dark area with small multicoloured grains. — Dinosaur Bone in Yellow Bernardo Cesare

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