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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.
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.
Florida State Geological Survey Annual Report 8:79–119. S. J. Olsen. 1964. The stratigraphic importance of a Lower Miocene vertebrate fauna from north Florida. Journal of Paleontology 38(3):477–482. Collected by S. J. Olsen, R. Cantwell, C. Cox. J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida.
Pages in category "Paleontological sites of Florida" ... Cutler Fossil Site; G. Gadsden County, Florida paleontological sites; Griscom Plantation Site; H. Haile ...
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the ... Florida: Wannagan Creek site, ... Fossil collecting – Collecting fossils ...
Workers at the Montbrook fossil site, just two hours north of Tampa, are sifting through clues to Florida's past.
Haile sites are found in the Alachua Formation. Two sites within the Ocala Limestone yielded Upper Eocene Valvatida (sea stars) and mollusks. University of Florida and Florida Museum of Natural History paleontologists numbered the Haile fossil sites with Arabic and Roman numbers and letters in order to define locations more distinctly. UF ...
Under Florida law, fossils of vertebrates found on state lands, ... Lundberg has a permit to collect such fossils and must report the tusk find to the museum when his permit is renewed in December ...