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The Jefferson County, Florida paleontological sites are assemblages of Mid-Miocene to Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Jefferson County, Florida, United States.
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Age
Era: Neogene
Period: Miocene to Pleistocene, ~23.03 Mya—11,000 years ago. (calculates to a period of approximately 22.92 million years).
Faunal stage: Clarendonian through early Rancholabrean
Sites
Ashville site (Miocene) Time period: ~13.5—12.7 Mya.
Aucilla River site (Pleistocene) Time period: ~126,000—11,000 years ago. The Aucilla site specimens were discovered by amateur paleontologist Dr. Richard Ohmes of Bremerton, Washington in 1969.
Coordinates: 30.1°N 83.9°W / 30.1; -83.9
Wacissa River site (Pleistocene) Time period: ~126,000—11,000 years ago. Collected by R. Alexon, B. Mathen, R. Gingery in October 1981; in shallow water. Specimens reposited in the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Coordinates: 30.4°N 83.9°W / 30.4; -83.9
Ashland site = ASH. Aucilla River site = ARS. Wacissa River site = WRS.