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The location of the state of Florida. 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.
The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida 's official state-sponsored and chartered natural history museum. Its main facilities are located at 3215 Hull Road on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville . The main public exhibit facility, Powell Hall and the attached McGuire Center, is located in the Cultural Plaza ...
Vero Man refers to a set of fossilized human bones found near Vero (now Vero Beach), Florida, in 1915 and 1916. The human bones were found in association with those of Pleistocene animals. Pleistocene dates range from 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago. The suggestion that humans might have been present in Florida (or anywhere in the Americas ...
Selected Cenozoic taxa of Florida [ edit] Life restoration of the Miocene camel Aepycamelus, or the long-necked camel. Heinrich Harder (1920). Life restoration of the Miocene elephant relative Amebelodon. Margret Flinsch (1932). Restoration of two of the Miocene-Pliocene bone-crushing dog genus Borophagus preying on a camel.
Melbourne Bone Bed is a paleontological site located at Crane Creek in Melbourne, in the U.S. state of Florida. This site contains fossils from the Late Pleistocene period 20,000 to 10,000 years before the present. [1] The fossils include extinct animals such as varieties of camels, dire wolves, Florida cave bears, giant armadillos, giant ...
Florida during the Pleistocene. The Haile Quarry or Haile sites are an Early Miocene and Pleistocene assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in the Haile quarries, Alachua County, northern Florida. The assemblage was discovered during phosphate mining, which began in the late 1940s. [1] Haile sites are found in the Alachua Formation.
List of the Cenozoic life of Florida. This list of the Cenozoic life of Florida contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Florida during the Cenozoic Era, between 66 million and 10,000 years ago.
The Inglis quarry or Inglis quarry sites 1A and 1C are assemblages of vertebrate fossils dating from the Pleistocene ~1.8 Mya—300,000 years ago, located in the phosphate quarries near the town of Inglis, Citrus County, northern Florida . Inglis sites FCi-1, FCi-2, Inglis Formation, Florida Geological Survey C-11, Inglis Member, Moodys Branch ...