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Ruin Wash trilobite beds

Fossil site Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: brachiopods.

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

Why this spot

Cambrian Pioche Shale slopes with abundant olenellid trilobites

Well-known Lincoln County locality in collector literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote dirt roads, heat

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