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Florida Museum of Natural History
Museum Collections ⭐ Invertebrate Paleontology Galleries
From barnacles to shrimp, browse fossil specimens in our invertebrate paleontology collection: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/...
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Species: Kionaster petersonae
Specimen: # UF 148379 *Holotype*
Locality: Calhoun Co., FL
Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida
Explore our state's freshwater fish species, including collection records, photos and map.
Shown: Chain Pickerel (Esox niger), indigenous to Florida's freshwaters
🔗 More info & browse gallery:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...
Online Exhibit 🌅 Women of the Everglades
In the early 1900s, three influential Florida women, inspired by three different causes, laid the foundation for Everglades conservation - May Mann Jennings, Minnie Moore-Willson, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
🔗 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...
Museum Collections 🦷 #Toothday
The Inglis 1A fossil site was excavated in the mid-1960s as a result of the Cross Florida Barge Canal project.
The site produced about 18,000 identifiable fossils representing at least 161 species. About the site: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vert...
Museum Resources 🩻 Digital Imaging
Our Digital Imaging Division facilitates the production, processing and analysis of two- and three-dimensional digital image data. 🌈 Browse some of the many museum specimens they have worked on:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...
The Turtle Death Layer coughed up a fossil with teeth marks, revealing a conflict between turtle and gar! 🐢
Paleontologist Jason Bourque recently described a new, extinct species of musk turtle that lived in Florida during the late Miocene.
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/anci...
Museum Resource 🦎 Florida Amphibians & Reptiles Checklist
Our herpetologists maintain a checklist of the established amphibians and reptiles known to occur in Florida, organized by currently accepted scientific name:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-her...
Shark class allows @ufl.edu & FSU students to live beachside, wander tidal pools just outside the lecture hall, take home a dissected shark skull and crew an offshore research survey.
🦈 Watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvrx...
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/shar...
Scientists have discovered that one of the ocean’s most recognizable corals, the iconic “organ pipe coral” — long believed to be a single species — includes at least 15 genetically distinct lineages.
🪸 Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/hidd...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Museum Collections 🌊 #WorldOceansDay
Feature: Sclerosponge (Acanthochaetetes wellsi)
Sclerosponges, a group of sponges, grow very slowly, so their limestone skeletons hold local climate records that can go back centuries.
🎧 More with Gustav Paulay: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...
