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East, Pennsylvania
Montour Preserve PA
Mahantango fossil pit
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: brachiopods, bryozoans, corals, gastropods, cephalopods.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: one-acre pit in Devonian Mahantango Formation shale, opened as a public collecting site beside the Lake Chillisquaque preserve
Preserve's own fossil-pit page and multiple named trip writeups document brachiopods, trilobites and cephalopods kept by visitors
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Sharp shale edgesNo shade, slick clay when wet
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