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Fossil Park Silica Shale piles

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: brachiopods, horn and colonial corals.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: free city park stocked with Devonian Silica Shale trucked from the adjacent Hanson quarry, a classic trilobite unit

Fossilguy and park documentation record brachiopods, corals and whole Eldredgeops trilobites kept by visitors

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Sharp shale, summer sun in the open pit

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