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Lilydale Regional Park clay pits

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: brachiopods, bryozoans.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Decorah Shale brick-clay pits long famous for Ordovician fossils

Historic permit collecting area documented by the city and university.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unstable bluffs

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