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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3113166, member: 76194"]Green with envy here. Fantastic fossils you found there. Especially the crabs, well done! Sadly all we have in Florida is a park with a river in which you must pay a fee to the State to dive in for your chance to pull out a bone fragment of a mammal or a tooth of a megalodon, basically Neogene and Quaternary periods megafauna fossil fragments. Either that or you can find some Paleogene Era sea fossils such as shells, coral bits, etc., around the Tampa area. Or you can find coquina deposits in northern Florida, but those don't tell you much as it's all a jumble of small bits of crushed up shells and brachiopods from the Permian era. In other words, we are pretty fossil poor compared to most of the country thanks to being underwater most of the time, and being such a flat area with little geological activity. I know for a fact the Miami area was pretty good for finding fossils of mammoth bones, saber tooth tigers, and other ice age fauna, but all of that has been swallowed up by parking lots and buildings. All that remains is a collection of local fossils that were donated to the Frost museum by the family of some late 19th century local explorer that dug some of these bones up, and some core samples taken which show that beneath the modern city is some rich deposits of Neogene fossils.[/QUOTE]