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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.
The Bone Valley Formation is a geologic formation in Florida. It is sometimes classified as the upper member of the Peace River Formation of the Hawthorn Group . [ 2 ] It contains economically important phosphorite deposits that are mined in west-central Florida, as well as rich assemblages of vertebrate fossils .
The Bone Valley is a region of central Florida, encompassing portions of present-day Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Polk counties, in which phosphate is mined for use in the production of agricultural fertilizer. Florida currently contains the largest known deposits of phosphate in the United States.
The Bone Valley Member (originally the Bone Valley Formation) is a subunit of the Peace River Formation and occurs in a limited area on the southern part of the Ocala Platform in Hillsborough, Polk County, and Hardee County. (Webb & Crissinger).
Oligocene fossils in Florida provide evidence for a diverse terrestrial fauna. [6] [7] [8] During the early Miocene uplift and mountain building filled in the Suwannee Strait. At this point coral reefs were forming in the Florida Keys. [1] The Thomas Farm Quarry is the richest source of Miocene mammal fossils in the eastern US. [1]
The Peace River Formation was proposed by Scott to include the Bone Valley Formation, the Murdock Station and Bayshore Clay members and other siliciclastic beds of the Tamiami Formation. The Peace River Formation overlies the Arcadia Formation. [18] The Penney Farms Formation is the lower part of the Hawthorn Group in northern and central ...
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
Jason Bourque is the current vertebrate paleontology preparator and studies fossil and living turtles. Gary S. Morgan was collections manager from 1981 through 1993, and oversaw the curation of massive numbers of specimens from the Love Bone Bed, Thomas Farm, Leisey Shell Pit, Bone Valley, Haiti, and elsewhere.