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Chipola River

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: Chipola shell fauna, coral.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Panhandle river cutting richly fossiliferous Miocene shell beds

Type area shell horizons cited in Gulf Coast paleontology.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

snakes, slick clay banks

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