Mineral Wells TX: city Fossil Park borrow pit

Where: US Midwest · North America · approx. 32.82, -98.16 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: Pennsylvanian Mineral Wells Formation exposed in an old city borrow pit, 300-million-year-old sea floor kept open as a free fossil park

What turns up: crinoid stems and calyxes, echinoids, brachiopods, bryozoans, rare trilobites and shark teeth

Access: Open / legal.

Free city fossil park, keep what you find; surface collecting only, no digging tools allowed, limited seasonal open days

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.