Sylvania OH: Fossil Park Silica Shale piles

ROCKHOUNDING OPEN / LEGAL CONFIRMED

Where: Midwest · North America · approx. 41.71, -83.74 (vicinity only)

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

What turns up: brachiopods, horn and colonial corals, crinoid pieces, Eldredgeops trilobite parts and occasional whole rollers

Access: Open / legal.

Free admission, keep what you find; no metal tools, hand-splitting only, collect only in the designated pit areas, digging season roughly April to early November

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

Pins are approximate by design. This page is historical research, not permission to dig. Check ownership and local law first.