Montbrook Fossil Dig – Florida Museum of Natural History https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/
Paleontology at the Florida Museum has at least one fossil
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Paleontology at the Florida Museum has at least one fossil
Institutes Latest Research News Montbrook Fossil
The „Grandfather“ to the modern horse, Pliohippus appears to be the source of the latest radiation in the horse family. It is believed to have given rise to Hippidion and Onohippidion, genera that thrived for a time in South American, and to Dinohippus which in turn led to Equus. Where & When
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Merychippus represents a milestone in the evolution of horses. Though it retained the primitive character of 3 toes, it looked like a modern horse. Merychippus had a long face. Its long legs allowed it to escape from predators and migrate long distances to feed. It had high-crowned cheek teeth, maki
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This small dog-sized animal represents the oldest known horse. It had a primitive short face, with eye sockets in the middle and a short diastema — the space between the front teeth and the cheek teeth. Although it has low-crowned teeth, we see the beginnings of the characteristic horse-like ri
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declared intent to protect and preserve vertebrate fossils – All vertebrate fossils found on lands owned or leased – by the state belong to the state with title to the fossils
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Though a relatively short epoch, tremendous events occurred during the Pliocene, such as the development of ice caps, the drying of the Mediterranean, and the joining of the Americas. Biogeographically, this epoch is characterized by the dramatic modernization of mammals. All of the presently exist
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the Florida Museum of Natural History will identify fossils
Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Fossil
The informal word „horse“ is used in both a narrow sense (sensu stricto) and in a broad sense (sensu lato). Some people use „horse“ in a narrow sense to indicate some (but not all) members of the modern domestic horse species Equus caballus (ek‘-kwis ca-bal-lus). For example, some may correct other
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an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil
Hodge displays the fossil coracoid, the largest and