Biology students from the Orlando campus searched South Florida’s Peace River for fossils in Brownville Park near Arcadia.  Dr. Frank Sommerhage, biology instructor at the Orlando campus, organized the field trip as an enrichment to the evolutionary unit within the Biology II course for science majors.  The fossils discovered at Peace River, one of Florida’s prime sites for fossil hunts, are from the Pliocene and Miocene epochs and can be up to 20 million years old.  The students found shark’s teeth in various sizes, silicified wood and even some vertebrate fossils at the confluence of Peace River and the Mare Branch.

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