Elephant graveyard found south of Gainesville

Clearly during Spurrier or Meyers reign. Sadly no Elephants have died in Florida since.

 

That is very cool.

 

They sure it’s not just The Villages?

 

I was all ready to land a well crafted Bama joke, but City beat me to it.

 

City and swamp babe handled the humor on this thread. lol

 

Welcome to Montbrook

The Division of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Florida Museum has at least one fossil collecting session per year that uses volunteer assistance.

Our current large-scale excavation is at the Montbrook Site. The site is about a 45-minute drive south of Gainesville, near the town of Williston in Levy County.

Based on the faunal assemblage and preservation, the site is believed to be 5 to 5.5 million years old (latest Miocene – earliest Pliocene, Hemphillian North American Land Mammal Age) and an ancient river system relatively close to a coast.

 

As usual. LOL

 

Very cool! Fossils are awesome. Earlier this week, I went down to the river during my lunch break and collected some 30 million year old agatized coral from the Oligcene/Miocene period.

I have a fossilized (I think) bone that I found in the High Springs area that I would love to get identified. I emailed UF's Natural History Musuem for help but never heard back. I made a small donation and the re-sent the email noting that I made a donation but didn't hear back from that, either.

Anyone paleontologists in the house?

 

Funniest post on Too Hot since the one about Dan Mullen Silent Quitting. lol

 

Post the picture. The answers should be amusing if not accurate.

 

Man that was an epic one.

 

always found it interesting that bison range extended down south of Gainesville and there is still a herd of wild bison on the prairie

 

Yeah, I think the fact it immediately popped into my head and you knew exactly what I was talking about shows how good that was.

 

And all the shark's teeth in the area... in the middle of the state

 

I can’t remember who that was but it was super clever.

 

<a href="If Your Co-Workers Are ‘Quiet Quitting,’ Here’s What That Means">If Your Co-Workers Are ‘Quiet Quitting,’ Here’s What That Means</a>

 

Apparently @G8R92 retired on top after that post. Lol. Probably to work on a better screen name.