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Midwest, Iowa
Rockford IA
Fossil & Prairie Park quarry
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: brachiopods (Douvillina, Strophodonta), horn corals, gastropods, cephalopods.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: old Rockford Brick & Tile clay pit in the Devonian Lime Creek Formation, one of the few preserves where the public may collect and keep fossils
Floyd County Conservation explicitly invites visitors to collect their own Devonian fossils; a century of published finds from the Rockford pit
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Slick clay slopes when wet, exposed sun
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