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Caloosahatchee River: The Caloosahatchee Formation is a geologic formation in Florida. [1] It preserves fossils dating back to the Pleistocene.
It is "one of the most characteristic and elegant fossils of the Caloosahatchee marl." [2] It was first described by Angelo Heilprin in 1886. The famous malacologist William Healey Dall stated that this "magnificent species seems to be confined to [the Pliocene Caloosahatchie Beds] and to have given rise to no descendant in the recent fauna.” [3]
The Ortona mounds are located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the present-day Caloosahatchee River. Until late in the 19th century, the Caloosahatchee River was fed by a series of lakes starting from Lake Hicpochee, and including Lettuce Lake, Bonnet Lake and Flirt Lake.
The Caloosahatchee culture is an archaeological culture on the Gulf coast of Southwest Florida that lasted from about 500 to 1750 AD. Its territory consisted of the coast from Estero Bay to Charlotte Harbor and inland about halfway to Lake Okeechobee , approximately covering what are now Charlotte , Lee , and Collier counties.
Only in the last few years have researchers found female panthers north of the Caloosahatchee River, which runs from Lake Okeechobee west to Fort Myers, he said. There were fewer than 20 ...
The Caloosahatchee River is a river on the southwest Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States, approximately 67 miles (108 km) long. [1] It drains rural areas on the northern edge of the Everglades , east of Fort Myers .
The Army Corps discharged about 15 billion gallons of Lake O water into the St. Lucie River from Feb. 17 to Feb. 26, then stopped releases for four days. ... The Caloosahatchee River is bearing ...
Starting in late 1913, vertebrate fossils were uncovered during the construction of a drainage canal from the Indian River between Vero and Gifford. Samples of the fossils were sent by Isaac M. Weills and Frank Ayers to the state geologist of Florida, E. H. Sellards, who recognized the finds as Pleistocene animals. In 1915, 26 fossilized human ...