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Paleontology in Florida refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Florida. Florida has a very rich fossil record spanning from the Eocene to recent times. Florida fossils are often very well preserved. [1] The oldest known fossils in Florida date back to the Eocene.
A living Apalone ferox, or Florida softshell turtle †Florida †Florida caerulea †Floridaceras †Floridachoerus †Floridatragulus; Fontigens – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature; Fossaria †Fossaria cubensis; Fossarus; Fragum; Fulgurofusus; Shell in multiple views of a Fulguropsis whelk ...
The Cutler Fossil Site is a sinkhole near Biscayne Bay in Palmetto Bay, Florida, which is south of Miami. The site has yielded bones of Pleistocene animals and bones as well as artifacts of Paleo-Indians and people of the Archaic period .
Abderospira † Abderospira funiakensis – type locality for species † Abelmoschomys † Abelmoschomys simpsoni – type locality for species Abertella † Abra † Abra aequalis † Abra cylicion – type locality for species † Abra lapochi – type locality for species † Abra subreflexa Shell of an Acanthocardia cockle Acanthocardia † Acanthocardia acrocome † Acanthocardia ...
Polk County can boast more individual fossil recovery sites than any other Florida county due to the phosphate mining concerns. Bone Valley Formation is a prime geologic formation.
Workers at the Montbrook fossil site, just two hours north of Tampa, are sifting through clues to Florida's past.
Florida during the Miocene. The Thomas Farm site is an Early Miocene, Hemingfordian assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in Gilchrist County, northern Florida. [1] The Thomas Farm site is one of the richest terrestrial deposits of Miocene vertebrates in the 18 Ma range found in eastern North America according to the Florida Museum of ...
At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a ...