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Silver River mammoth site, Silver Springs
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: Clovis point, ivory shaft.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Late Pleistocene
Florida State Parks reports two juvenile Columbian mammoths eroding from the bed of the Silver River, excavated by underwater archaeologists in the 1970s and restudied in 2017.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
boat traffic, alligators
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