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Established. 1999. Governing body. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park is a Florida State Park located at mile marker 85.5 near Islamorada. It was a former quarry used by Henry Flagler in the early 1900s to help his building of the Overseas Railroad. Following the railroad's completion ...
December 1974. Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park is a Florida state park located in the north-westernmost part of Gainesville, Florida, off County Road 232, also known as NW 53rd Avenue and Millhopper Road, northwest of the University of Florida . The park is maintained by the Florida Park Service, a division of the Florida Department of ...
Paleontology in Florida. The location of the state of Florida. Paleontology in Florida refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Florida. Florida has a very rich fossil record spanning from the Eocene to recent times. Florida fossils are often very well preserved.
Wakulla Springs is located 14 miles (23 km) south of Tallahassee, Florida and 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Crawfordville in Wakulla County, Florida at the crossroads of State Road 61 and State Road 267. It is protected in the Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park.
Canada [ edit] Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre, Saskatchewan. Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia. Yoho National Park ( Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia. Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia. McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site.
Coquina from the Anastasia Formation ( Quaternary; St. Augustine, Florida) The Anastasia Formation is composed of quartz sands and calcite coquina, with sporadic instances of fossil debris. [7] Coloration of the formation varies from a light grey tone to a soft orange-brown. The formation is soft to moderately hard coquina composed of whole and ...
Windley Key. Windley Key is an island in the upper Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. U.S. 1 (the Overseas Highway) crosses it at approximately mile markers 84–85.5, between Plantation Key and Upper Matecumbe Key. All of the key is within the Village of Islamorada as of November 4, 1997, when it was incorporated.
The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida 's official state-sponsored and chartered natural history museum. Its main facilities are located at 3215 Hull Road on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville . The main public exhibit facility, Powell Hall and the attached McGuire Center, is located in the Cultural Plaza ...