Vertebrate Fossil Sites

Over 750 different locations in Florida have produced fossils of vertebrate animals. 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 further information, and, when available, images of the locations. The locality accounts are linked with the Fossil Species of Florida, which provide information on the species which have found at these localities. The intended audience for this website are students and educators, amateur and professional paleontologists, and any others interested in paleontology.

Land mammal ages are frequently used to describe the relative age of a fossil site or a species on this website. View a complete description of land mammal ages, how they are used, and which ones are found in Florida.

When possible, the references will include links to online versions of the papers, although not all of them will have free open-access. An online glossary provides definitions for technical terms. The book, The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida, will also be a good reference to those with little or no training in paleontology.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number CSBR 1203222, Jonathan Bloch, Principal Investigator. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Site or Fauna	County	Age
Agricola Road Site, Hookers Prairie Mine	Polk	Middle Miocene Epoch
Coleman 2A	Sumter	Middle Pleistocene Epoch
Gainesville Creeks Fauna	Alachua	Late Miocene Epoch
Gunn Farm Mine	Gadsden	Middle Miocene Epoch
Haile 7C	Alachua	Early Pleistocene Epoch
Haile 15A	Alachua	Early Pleistocene Epoch
I-75 Site	Alachua	Oligocene Epoch
Ichetucknee River	Columbia	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Inglis 1A	Citrus	Early Pleistocene Epoch
Leisey Shell Pit 1A	Hillsborough	Early Pleistocene Epoch
Love Site	Alachua	Late Miocene Epoch
McGehee Farm	Alachua	Late Miocene Epoch
Melbourne	Brevard	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Millennium Park	Pinellas	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Mixson’s Bone Bed	Levy	Late Miocene Epoch
Monkey Jungle Hammock 1	Dade	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Montbrook Site	Levy	Late Miocene or early Pliocene epoch
Moss Acres Racetrack Site	Marion	Late Miocene Epoch
Palmetto Fauna	Polk, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Hardee counties	Early Pliocene Epoch
Peace River 3A	De Soto	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Sabertooth Cave	Citrus	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Santa Fe River 1 [Blancan]	Columbia	Early Pleistocene Epoch
Seminole Field	Pinellas	Late Pleistocene Epoch
Thomas Farm	Gilchrist	Early Miocene Epoch
Tucker Borrow Pit	Brevard	Late Early-Middle Pleistocene Epoch

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Sponsorship and Funding Opportunities

Funds are needed to hire advanced UF undergraduate and graduate students to write these accounts, take and process the images, and put them in proper format to post online. Individuals, families, and organizations who want to sponsor one or more fossil site accounts should contact Richard Hulbert. For a donation of $150 or more, you can help sponsor the web page of a particular fossil location, and your support will be acknowledged on that locality’s web page. For a donation of $500 or more, you can be the exclusive sponsor of a locality’s web page. Donations are tax deductible.