The News-Press [USA], January 18, 2011
Recently discovered plant material from deep beneath Pine Island might
change the way scientists think about Florida's ancient geography. Tests
at the University of Florida show that a rock sample from an injection
well contained pollen and spores from the oldest land plants ever found
in Florida. The sample and, thus, the pollen and spores date to the
Eocene epoch – about 35 million years ago – a time when scientists
think the Florida Peninsula was at the bottom of a shallow sea.
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