Oligocene Epoch - Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land

[@ManzanitaStarwood]

It’s cool to know that Florida was under the ocean for a long time and only comparatively recently became terrestrial land.

[@mycoffeemyday]

Who would thumb this video down? Education shouldn't hurt.

[@bobh5087]

I live about 40 miles northwest of Orlando, and I sometimes see small sea shells in the sand on my property.

[@FloridaMuseum]

Hi Bob! Here's a link to our page about some of the more prominent fossil sites in Florida. You might like learning about what types of fossils were found in your area, and what we've learned about Florida at that time: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/sites/

[@bobh5087]

@@FloridaMuseum Thank you for the link. 👍

[@cwenterprizewells1104]

Sorry I didn't get back to you guys I've started my own research self funded with only a couple of hundred dollars in my pocket.after selling my 5th wheel camper.i will set out on foot since I don't own a vehicle due to mother nature destroying my only way of transportation.Im fascinated with the ancient coastline of the oligocene in central Florida.I will walk across the state from Bayshore Blvd to the east coast right along Hwy 60 and between State Rd 574 aka Martin Luther King Blvd to sample storm run off and gravel samples sifting with a sink strainer.Im a journeymen pipe fitter 4 year degree out of Tampa bay Votech graduated 2001.but since my childhood I always had a passion for geology in gemstones.thats were my heart is . Hopefully I will discover many fossils and rocks from the Oligocene period best way would be a ATV Gator or polaris.but that's another story some day soon.So wish me luck and a safe journey for I represent the Great state of Florida Godspeed.

[@lordlandbeast]

Very cool to visualize It must have looked amazing, on another note, can't wait until Florida is under water again 😉

[@markwilliams4525]

All the "global warming" believers need to watch this!!

[@deadtotheworld1712]

What is the species of the skeleton shown?

[@FloridaMuseum]

If you are referring to the fossil shown at approximately 2:23, this is a Mesoreodon floridensis. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/species/mesoreodon-floridensis/

[@flyingscience]

If you love fossils, I post beginner classes ,field trips ,and paleontoligst lectures .Over 50 videos online with new ones added monthly from the oldest fossil club in the USA . Search under" Dry Dredgers or Cincinnati fossils."

[@sumairaaltaf1818]

plz send me fossils of paleogene

[@chriswells4028]

Today I found the actient beach from this time period and found limestone crystals and fossils they just cleared a bunch of trees on this property that up for sale I think it should be excuvated before it becomes a strawberry feild .Dover Florida please message me back

[@FloridaMuseum]

Hi Chris, You're more than welcome to contact the scientists in our paleontology department for advice on how to address this: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/staff-grads/staff/

[@TermiteUSA]

The climate changed before and it'll change again

[@Dman9fp]

Well yeah it changes no matter what we do, sometimes gradually, sometimes more abrupt. People are so up in arms about it nowadays because we are pumping so many mega-tons of carbon into the atmosphere through various activities (carbon & methane being green house gases). Definitely won't be the best time to be a person in the upcoming generations lol

[@marlinweekley51]

Capt Termite it should be noted it took tens of millions of year for early climate changes and tens of thousands re most recent ice age in Midwest US and there was no human life to be of concern. Currently the changes are taking place in less than a few hundred years with millions of human lives at stake largely do to human activity. This speed of change not only threatens billions worth of property and human life but doesn’t allow for the wild species to adapt and evolve.

[@markwilliams4525]

@@marlinweekley51 you're definitely ate up with it! You have no idea how many times or how often the earth has changed or how often it should!! The industrial revolution only started just over 100 years ago and we've only been keeping track of temperatures not too long ago.

[@lightninglad6928]

epic

[@ascendtranscend3812]

#godblessflorida

[@ericsgreyhairwisdom5799]

How fillipino's were made

[@thealligatorboy1424]

I wonder if deinosuchus lived in florida we just haven't found it yet

[@FloridaMuseum]

Interesting question! We asked our paleontologists for their thought on this ancient creature in Florida, and this was their response: During most of the late Cretaceous when Deinosuchus was living, the North American coastline in the SE U.S. extended down through the Carolinas, curving westward through central Georgia and then heading northwest through Alabama. So all of what is now Florida was far offshore. The habitat of Deinosuchus is thought to be in estuaries and other coastal regions, and not in the open ocean. So if we could somehow access the deeply buried sediments deposited during the late Cretaceous in Florida, it is highly unlikely we would find fossils of Deinosuchus. Instead we would expect to discover fossils of fully marine animals such as ammonites, sharks, fish, sea turtles, and extinct reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. It is possible that we could, under this hypothetical scenario, find the remains of an isolated carcass of Deinosuchus that floated out into the ocean or an individual forced out to sea by a storm.

[@calebsmith2362]

That was an amazing response! I’m originally from Indiana where glaciers scraped away all our Mesozoic aged rocks so it’s better to have mosasaurs buried deep under our feet than no mosasaurs at all. It’s about time we start digging. lol

[@ElchapGamingversion]

whos here cause off mr.stabler

[@kentzybeast8504]

How philippines was made

[@omzkilet56]

Florida was Atlantis

[@commonsense9800]

I hope someone can help me out because I’m having a hard time understanding evolution due to the fact that animals today that are relatives to prehistoric animals really have not changed on a physical perspective Willy mammoth is now just a smaller hairless elephant and alligators are still the same for smaller sharks are still the same but smaller. Is it possible that the changing of animals is only due to environment and mixing breeds for instance people 1 million years from now could say certain animals evolved but the reality is we were just breeding different types together which created a new version so how was it that is not all that has happened throughout history was animals similar to one another breeding and just creating a new one which is not evolution and the same goes for humans as we see you now people of different ethnicities and colors breeding together is Why are we now currently have created new breeds of people but once again it’s not evolution because I understand evolution as a single breed that continues to evolve and turn in to something else physically but I don’t see any actual evidence of that

[@thebestofallworlds187]

earths only 6000 years old.

[@jasminedowning8109]

its 4.5 billion years old...

[@marlinweekley51]

😂😂😂😂

[@conco6564]

It 4.5 Billion years tho

[@digitalsalsas]

con cò wow you’re so smart.. very smart parrot

[@conco6564]

@@digitalsalsas what?i learn this from school