Dig This!

Not much to do…Why not go hunting for fossils…

It was a gorgeous day with deep blue skies and mild temperatures. It was a leisurely kind of Sunday yet, we wanted something to do. Next thing I knew, we were at Trammel Fossil Park in Sharonville.

Katie, Michael, Rachel, and Brandon sprang out of the car to check out the place.

This fossil park is a place where schools and avid fossil hunters come and explore. Trammel Fossil Park is unique because there are very few places to dig for fossils in the Cincinnati area that are safe and accessible. Since the plot of Trammel Fossil Park has never been disturbed, there is a plethora of fossils in very good condition. Schools as far as New York have come to Trammel Fossil Park for exploration.

So off everyone headed with their digging tools in hand… with eyes peeled, they collected many interesting rocks to take home and clean up.

I think we all would have liked to have found a T-Rex tooth or a something comparable, but the vast majority of fossils we found were less than one inch in size. Most of the fossils were pieces of crinoids, trilobites, brachiopods, bryozoans, gastropods, and horn coral.

Some rocks were plain and uninteresting while others looked like the ocean floor teaming with life. It was fun to chip away at dirt/clay/rock to find some sort of treasure inside. There’s something about digging in dirt that brings out the kid in you.












Brandon said he found a mustache fossil!