Rockford IA: Fossil & Prairie Park quarry

Where: Midwest · North America · approx. 43.05, -92.97 (vicinity only)

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

What turns up: brachiopods (Douvillina, Strophodonta), horn corals, gastropods, cephalopods, crinoid debris

Access: Open / legal.

Free county park, sunrise to sunset, hand collecting in the designated quarry area allowed; prairie and kiln areas are off limits to digging

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