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US Midwest, Ohio
Sylvania OH
Fossil Park Devonian quarry
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: brachiopods, horn corals, pyritized shells.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Silica Shale spoil from the adjacent Hanson quarry, world-famous 375-million-year-old Devonian fauna served up for the public
City park stocked with quarry shale expressly for collecting; pyritized brachiopods and trilobites documented by Fossilguy and many others
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Sun-baked open pitSharp shale, seasonal closures after rain
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