Moscow is a fossil collection site in Clermont, Ohio, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Kope Formation, dated to the Edenian (451–450.2 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as deep subtidal shelf and the tectonic setting is foreland basin. Documented finds include Triendoceras davisi.

Geologic setting

Formation: Kope
Geologic interval: Edenian
Age: 451–450.2 Ma
Depositional environment: deep subtidal shelf
Tectonic setting: foreland basin
Recorded occurrences: 1

Geology notes

Kope Fm. general environmental interpretation: "low-energy, mud-bottom environments [...] periodically reworked by storm events commonly resulting in sets of storm-formed 'tempestite' beds consisting of fining-up packets of packstone/grainstone-siltstone-shale [...]"

Fossils found here

Triendoceras davisi

Cephalopoda · Endoceratidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 88128 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at Moscow?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

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Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 194 kg iron meteorite was found at Kenton County in 1889, 20 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.