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Marble Mountains Trilobite Beds, CA
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: brachiopods.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Cambrian Latham Shale trilobites (Olenellus) in the eastern Mojave
Classic Cambrian trilobite site near Chambless/Cadiz documented on mindat and in fossil guides.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote desertHeat, splitting shale, no water
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