Florida fossil hunt

[Deweythekenyan]

Hello

I am going to everglades next week and was curious if anyone had done any fossil hunting over that way and any thing I should be aware of? 

[jpc]

well, let's see ... the Everglades are a National Park, so no fossiling alllowed there.  That's all I know. 

[bocaciega]

North West towards Venice has some fossiling. Sarasota County beaches have good fossiling. Not in the parks though. There's some pretty lucrative stuff here 

[Shellseeker]

Search the internet..

A guide map to geologic and paleontologic sites in Florida ( FGS: Map series 125 ).

[digit]

As stated above nothing may be removed from within the park itself. The entire southern tip of Florida is mostly caprock composed of oolitic limestone. I used to live in South Florida and the only fossils to be found there tended to be Pleistocene shells and the rare piece of coral. The southern tip of the peninsula is the lowest in elevation and has been underwater more than the rest of Florida over time. Most of the fossil material at the surface are common shells dating back a hundred thousand years or so (from the little I'd learned while living down there).

 

There is an interesting tiny park in the Florida Keys if you are heading that way.

 

https://www.floridastateparks.org/WindleyKey

https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/geology-windley-key-fossil-reef-geological-state-park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windley_Key_Fossil_Reef_Geological_State_Park

https://floridatrippers.com/windley-key-fossil-reef-geological-state-park/

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

[Deweythekenyan]

Thank you so much for all the information!!!!

[digit]

That's what this forum is all about.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken