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Wacissa River, Ice Age bone and tusk sites
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: horse, extinct tapir, early llama.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Late Pleistocene
Florida Museum researchers recovered mammoth and mastodon remains, including a 7.5 foot tusk, from about a dozen sites on the Aucilla and Wacissa; the Ryan-Harley site on the lower Wacissa produced extinct tapir, Palaeolama and horse.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
alligatorsDense vegetation, boat traffic, remote reaches
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