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Sharonville OH

Trammel Fossil Park hillside

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: brachiopods, bryozoans, horn corals, Flexicalymene (rare whole).

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: type-Cincinnatian Upper Ordovician beds on a graded hillside, one of the richest easy fossil exposures in the Midwest

City of Sharonville park with interpretive signage; Dry Dredgers field-trip writeups document the fauna bed by bed

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Loose scree on the slopeNo shade, ticks in summer grass

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