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I went down to south central Ohio near Dayton and Ludlow Falls for a Fossil hunting trip organized by our Fossil club, the North Coast Fossil Club out of the Cleveland Ohio area. Our hunt was planned for Saturday 8/29/15, and I was able to go down Friday for an extra day of fossil hunting around the Dayton and Xenia areas. Friday was a bust, the area I planned to hunt north of the Wright Bros. memorial looked very good but I could not get to it. Dirt road was overgrown, too far for me to walk, and not about to scratch up my brand new Ford Edge, 2000 miles, no way. So, I went over to the Xenia area to check out the road cuts on OH 42 south. That was a flop, very little left to collect between Xenia and Waynesville. Saturday morning we all met at the Quarry (not naming because access is getting very restricted) north of Dayton. Expecting to hunt the same area we were at two years ago, I was glad to see we were going to a new part of the quarry; things are looking up. Not so much, I can see everyone moving around and not finding anything worth picking up. Time to move further along the cut. This is all newly blasted, Silurian age Dolomite that has not seen light for the last 430 million years. What I and the rest are finding is there was not much alive that became fossilized in this area either. It is beginning to look like another disappointing fossil hunting trip to this Quarry. I am finding some of the large Pentamerid brachiopods, and a nice section of a straight cephalopod, split long ways. It would of polished up nice, but was left behind. One of the members said that the Women farther down had found some Trilobites. Off I go to see what was found. These were a few nice prone Calymene Trilobites. These were on a light tan sandstone type of Dolomite that was splitting in two to three inch thick sections. Usually at this quarry, you bring your bigger sledgehammers and spend a lot of time busting rock hopping to find a surprise, bug. This was very interesting. I went up the blast pile, which was mostly gray here, with some of the tan in areas. Up on top of the pile apx. 25 to 30 feet high and in the swale, I would call it; was a lot of this tan stone in thinner sheets. I start a more thorough search of this stone and a nice prone Calymene trilobite. OK, I found “ONE”. That usually makes it a great trip. Waite! What is this, another one??? Can’t be, that’s not my luck. Another one!!! I must be dreaming, you only read about other people doing this. Another one? This is getting serious. OK! Things are getting strange for me, I am building up a stack of stones with prone and full molds of Trilobites. This is not the usual trilobite pieces and parts, usually tail sections or an occasional head; these are all full Trilobites except where the rock split through it. This area must be one of the mass mortality areas you only read about. I look around to see who is around I can call over, this is too good for just one person; too many trilobites in too big of an area, I need to get more members here to get in on the fun. Great luck, I see one of our newest members of the Forum and our Fossil club, Velociraptor99. I yell out to him, to carefully climb up where I am, I want to show him something. Being new, he is wanting a trilobite, like we all do. He gets up where I am, and I show him what I am finding, and he is thrilled. I show him what he is looking for, what kind of stone to look for what he is looking for and send him over 10 feet away. There is no need to send him far away, there are too many bugs right here. I also tell him to also check out the loose dirt, sand and ground stone between the rocks for rollers. It only takes a few minutes till him let out a holler that he found one, than he calls out he found a lose one, in great shape. Then another. He is thrilled for being 16 and on his first big quarry trip. I give him a piece of orange marking tape to put on his growing pile of Trilobites so they don’t get lost in the excitement. Ok, Time to call in more members there are more to share, Hey everyone come on over. The members that made it over ALL had a memorable trip after this find. I have over twenty Trilobites that should be very close to full prone or slightly bent after they get prepped out. Of the full molds, I hope to make casts of the missing bugs. High explosives have a tendency of being rough on fossils, but many of these are beautiful. Short info: This area is the Cedarville formation – Dolomite Pentamerid brachiopods are found near contact with the Springfield Dolomite This are is Silurian age, Dolomite Wenlockian age, 430/433 million years old Some of the Calymene Trilobites I found.