Caesar Creek Lake Emergency Spillway Fossil Beds
Ohio
Dam construction exposed roughly 438-million-year-old Ordovician marine fossils in a designated collection zone. Collecting requires a free visitor-center permit, uses no tools, and is limited to palm-size specimens from the spillway floor.
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Dam construction exposed roughly 438-million-year-old Ordovician marine fossils in a designated collection zone. Collecting requires a free visitor-center permit, uses no tools, and is limited to palm-size specimens from the spillway floor.
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