Polk County, Florida paleontological sites


The Polk County paleontological sites are assemblages of Early Miocene to Late Pleistocene vertebrates occurring in Polk County, Florida, United States.

Age

Era: Neogene

Period: Miocene to Pleistocene, ~17.7—1.5 Mya..

Faunal stage: Hemingfordian through early Clarendonian

Geological Formation: Bone Valley Formation.

Sites

Polk County can boast more individual fossil recovery sites than any other Florida county due to the phosphate mining concerns. Bone Valley Formation is a prime geologic formation. Some of these sites are: Agricola Road, Agrico Pierce Mine, American Agricultural Chemical Company Mine, Brewster Phosphate Mine, Fort Meade Mine, Kingsford Mine, Phosphoria Mine, Fort Green Mine, Payne Creek Mine, and Palmetto Mine.

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Specimens

Reptiles

The taxa listed within this article were compiled from numerous collections within Paleobiology Database . authorized by John Alroy, Ph.D.. Further documentation on these genera and species are available.