TNGray Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 The Fossil Prairie Park is an old quarry that has been opened to the public for fossil hunting. It is a great place for kids as the fossils are everywhere, in great condition and the hunting is safe. See my report at http://nautiloid.net/fossils/sites/rockford.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Looks like a great site; unfortunately, the link is broken. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyT. Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 I second that. It is a very unique place. You step on fossils as you exit your car! Their visitor center displays are worth seeing, also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Link here << CLICK ME >> I agree, nice looking area. Thanks for posting this. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNGray Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Sorry about the error in the link. http://nautiloid.net/fossils/sites/rockford/rockford.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Looks like a peach of a spot to collect! Anybody who goes there should be careful that it doesn't spoil their experience of collecting other sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Looks wonderful! Thank you for posting. There are a few sites like this around the country, but there should be a lot more. I'm curious how this site came to be. Please share what you know or find out. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I second that - it would be nice to have more such sites but I fear that the closure of sites all over the place will put extra collecting pressure on sites like this that remain open to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 That is a nice report with good pictures. I think this site is the Lime Creek Formation, not the Hackberry Formation that is mentioned in your report. I think the confusion is from an old report that called this the Hackberry fauna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobiteruss Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Yes Lime Creek was more current name. Wonderful place collected there many years as a kid when the brick and tile plant were active still in the old abandoned areas. Lots of Devonian material here from tons of brachiopods, corals, mollusk bryozoans, crinoids other echinoderms, fish, goniatite cephalopods and tons more. I used to have large collection that I gave away or traded since I do mainly trilobites now. Anyone with interest in Devonian marine faunas will love this site. It was about 30 miles from my old home town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Rockford is a great place to go. Good on that community to keep a place open like the Fossil Prairie Park. Ive been there 3 times now and I love the Late Devonian brachiopods there. My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 What a great place! We've taken our kids there a couple times - it was a great place to introduce them to fossil collecting. I think I've got an example of just about every brachipod from the site. I've also got a couple pelycypods (I've only found internal molds) and even one or two pieces of fish bone - hard to tell (I'll have to post a photo some time and let you'all take a look...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyT. Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 No fishey fossils yet for me so please do post photos of yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyT. Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Talk about getting spoiled, it's true of this site but nearly anywhere I went in Northern Kentucky y Iwas loaded with cool finds. I told a cashier at a Pizza Hut in Maysville why I was visiting. She didn't know about the area so I walked out to the alley behind the restaurant and picked up some huge, very 3-D brachiopods from the hillside and gave them to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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