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FOSSIL FLORIDA
Florida has a rich fossil history, with over 1,000 different species of vertebrate animals known to have lived in the state over the past 35 million years. The oldest known fossils in Florida date back to the Eocene epoch, approximately 50 million years ago, when the state was covered by a sea home to marine invertebrates and primitive whales. Since then, sea levels have risen and fallen, resulting in a diverse fossil record of land-dwelling animals and sea life.
ALWAYS EXPLORING NEW PLACES
Florida has the richest fossil record of vertebrate animals of the eastern United States. Florida has the distinction of being the richest state for vertebrate fossils from both land and marine animals east of the Mississippi River.
CREEKS AND RIVERS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA ARE THE HOST OF SOME AMAZING FOSSILS
Florida Fossil Shark Teeth
Ten million years ago, when Florida was submerged under water, the area was teeming with sharks. Over time, as the water receded giving way to land, the prehistoric sharks died – their skeletons disintegrated, but their fossilized teeth remained.