Montbrook fossil site being excavated by the Florida Museum of Natural History, May 11th 2022.
The Montbrook site is about a 45-minute drive south of Gainesville, FL near the town of Williston in Levy County.
Based on the faunal assemblage and preservation, the site is believed to be 5 to 5.5 million years old (latest Miocene – earliest Pliocene, Hemphillian North American Land Mammal Age) and an ancient river system relatively close to a coast.
Complete faunal list from the site can be found here: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/faunal-list/
More on the Florida Museum Vertebrate Paleontology collection here: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/
Unit of measurment = meter
Photogrammetry scan by Zach Randall of the Florida Museum Digital Imaging Division
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