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There is a fossil park in Paulding, OH, where you can collect fossil specimens from the Silica Shale. You might remember we did a page about brachiopods from the Silica Shale in Ohio a few months ago. This park is a dump site of fossiliferous overburden shale from the La Farge Quarry in Paulding Ohio. Here is a great page with a description and directions to the site. La Farge are very generous to provide this community collecting area. Last I read, they even have a porta-potty on site!
I haven't visited yet, but plan to at some point. Below, are pictures of two Paulding Phacops rana trilobites.
