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| | The Hall of Florida Fossils - Thomas Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Thomas Farm was first discovered in 1931 by Clarence Simpson, a staff member of the Florida Geological Survey (FGS), while he was investigating rumors that a Native American gravesite had been found among the sand hills of Gilchrist County in north central Florida. |
 | | Thomas Farm reveals a fossil land vertebrate fauna virtually unparalleled in diversity for its age, replete with amphibians, reptiles, birds, small rodents, bats, rhinoceroses, three species of three-toed horses, several artiodactyls (including camels, peccary, deer-like species and other extinct forms), as well as dogs, bears, and bear-dogs. |
 | | The terrestrial environment around the Thomas Farm sinkhole was wooded, perhaps a mosaic of dense stands and forested savanna. |
| www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fossilhall/FLPaleo/ThomasFarm/ThomasFarm.htm (1325 words) |
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