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  • MacKenzie Smith posted an image in the group Group logo of Florida’s FossilsFlorida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 6 months ago

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    This is Attalea gunteri, one of the few Eocene non-marine plants in Florida. While this species is extinct, this is a modern genus of palm native to Central America and the Caribbean. We are looking at the fruit of the plant, the only part we have discovered in Florida. Note the vasculature (striations) on the side of the fruit. Today there are no native Attalea in Florida and it is thought that Florida was underwater during the Eocene. So either this was washed out to the sea from its current range, washed out to sea from what is now the US and went extinct or there might have been a few islands poking out of the sea forming a proto-Florida in the Eocene. #fossil