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Today I stopped at the Gainesville Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida so my wife could see the Rainforest Butterfly Exhibit and walk among the butterflies. Well after doing that, I did what any good FF Member would do, I took a ton of pictures of their Fossil exhibits. It is a very nice museum and it is free, with the exception of special exhibits like the Butterflies. For your viewin pleasure, her are the pics- it will take a couple posts.

 

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Wow! 

You did take a lot of photos! :D

Marvelous as well, though i think some of their labels are wrong! 

Nice variety and well laid out to make the most of the space. 

Splendid. 

Thanks for sharing. :)

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@Fruitbat Thanks Joe.

 

@Tidgy's Dad Adam thanks and you are correct about the way they laid it out. The Fossil section does not have a very big footprint at all, but they arrange it well. I did not look at the labels and I believe the pics that I took corresponded to the actual piece, so if you see something that is not correct, that may be the case.

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I always wanted to see the Florida Natural History Museum. The attention paid to Florida's rich trove of invertebrate fossils was especially appreciated. Thanks for sharing.

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On 4/25/2018 at 6:14 PM, Nimravis said:

Today I stopped at the Gainesville Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida so my wife could see the Rainforest Butterfly Exhibit and walk among the butterflies. Well after doing that, I did what any good FF Member would do, I took a ton of pictures of their Fossil exhibits.

You done us proud.  Thank you for taking your camera along and sharing these fantastic photos. :fistbump:

Did I happen to mention how much I :wub: Florida fossil whale teeth ?FloridaFossilWhale.JPG.e6cdb0ec89a1a3fd84a2758d1ce93f89.JPG

I have the true good fortune to be visiting the Museum at Gainesville on May 11th...  I will try to get a few interesting photos like this one from a 2012 trip.

The hands of Richard Hulbert with a skull of Castoroides ohioensis

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1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

@Shellseeker I would like to see those pics.

Will Oblige...

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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Very nice tour thanks, never visited added to my list.  Great photos.   Some of their dinosaur teeth ID's pretty bad so are the labels in need of first aid :o

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Excellent pics:fistbump: still on my must see list

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Thanks for sharing! There were many things I have never seen.

I especially liked the

Encope echinoid

Arcinella comita

Aturia nautiloid

Trochita

 

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Dannnnnnnggg that’s cool! Thanks for the pics! Loved it!

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine

"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else."

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On 4/30/2018 at 11:58 AM, Shellseeker said:

 

I have the true good fortune to be visiting the Museum at Gainesville on May 11th...  I will try to get a few interesting photos like this one from a 2012 trip.

The hands of Richard Hulbert with a skull of Castoroides ohioensis

 

 

Hey Jack--I assume you will be in Gainesville for the FPS tour, field trip and meeting.  If so I will see you there.

 

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Wish I could join you guys for the FPS meeting, but my daughter and family are moving to their new house on the 11th and I have been recruited to help them move.

 

Don

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2 hours ago, MikeR said:

 

Hey Jack--I assume you will be in Gainesville for the FPS tour, field trip and meeting.  If so I will see you there.

 

I'll be there Mike from cradle to grave, the grave being the Montbrook Fossil site for dusting off a few old bones...:bone::bone:https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/

1 hour ago, FossilDAWG said:

Wish I could join you guys for the FPS meeting, but my daughter and family are moving to their new house on the 11th and I have been recruited to help them move.

 

Don

Mike and I are out for fun and games...  Family always comes first.  Will miss you... Jack

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On 4/30/2018 at 8:58 AM, Shellseeker said:

I have the true good fortune to be visiting the Museum at Gainesville on May 11th...  I will try to get a few interesting photos

Where is the beef!:D

Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection

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Thanks for that great tour!

I liked very much those Pliocene Bivalvia and Gastropoda.

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Good thing these guys are herbivore. That is one big beaver chomper!

 

 

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On April 25, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Fruitbat said:

Looks like a nice museum with a wide variety of specimens.  Thanks for sharing!

 

-Joe

 

Hi Joe,

 

It's a beautiful museum and that "life through time" type permanent exhibit is awesome.  Florida's surface fossil history starts in the Late Eocene (they have to drill deep to get to older rocks) and there's a nice representation of what's been found from that time forward.  I try to visit every time I'm in town on business which is at least twice per year.  They change the specimens periodically in the hall on the way to the permanent exhibit and sometimes the temporary exhibit in another hall there is fossil-related (Titanoboa a couple of years ago, sharks, etc.).

 

The gift shop is nice too with a lot of local science-related merchandise.  They used to sell a variety of paleo publications but they haven't restocked.  I was just there a couple of weeks ago.

 

Jess

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