2023年3月1日 · Over 1,000 different species of vertebrate animals are known to have lived in Florida over the past 35 million years. Florida has the richest fossil record of vertebrate animals of the eastern United States.

Travel around the exhibit’s central island and witness the fossil history of Florida during the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. See Florida’s first land animals and an amazing parade of life through the ages.

2023年3月1日 · Florida has the richest fossil record of vertebrate animals of the eastern United States. These webpages are designed to provide basic information about scientifically significant fossil-producing locations, a list of all known species present at each site, citations to the primary scientific literature to provide a guide to those seeking ...

2023年2月8日 · Personnel of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Florida Museum of Natural History will identify fossils that have been legally collected or purchased. To aid our identifications, tell us where the specimen was found, to the best of your knowledge.

2022年12月21日 · The strength and significance of the FLMNH Invertebrate Paleontology (IP) Collection resides in the extensive amount of material collected within the last 50 years from over 8,500 sites around Florida, the southeastern U.S., and the circum-Caribbean.

2023年5月30日 · Today, the river no longer exists, but the fossils it left behind have offered paleontologists a panoramic view of life in prehistoric Florida. Early last year, scientists and volunteers began unearthing the gomphotheres at the Montbrook Fossil Dig in what is likely to be a record-breaking discovery.

2022年4月11日 · Fossils collected from local spots like Hogtown Creek help illuminate the record of both land and sea life. The Miocene Epoch in Florida marks the arrival of the great megafauna land dwellers, and sets the stage for tumultuous changes to come.

2022年6月11日 · Pleistocene fossils are found in almost every county in Florida, from the Panhandle to the Florida Keys. Fossils from over 1,000 such localities are archived in the collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

2023年11月6日 · Vallejo-Pareja compared fossils found at the sites in Florida with existing collections containing specimens from both extinct and living frogs, including the Florida Museum’s samples of the La Hotte glanded frog.

2020年12月11日 · Composition and Age of Peace River Basin Vertebrate Fossils. Most of the vertebrate fossils from the Peace River Basin (PBR) are collected from modern sand and gravel bars on the bed of the Peace River and some of its tributary creeks.