Where to Find Fossilized Coral in Florida
Florida has 5 mapped collecting spots that report fossilized coral, spread across 5 counties. 5 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Every fossilized coral spot we track in Florida
Best spotEnglewood BeachCharlotte County, FloridaPublic access · Fossilized Coral, Shark Tooth, Sponge +1
Best spotGulf BeachesSarasota County, FloridaPublic access · Fossilized Coral, Shark Tooth, Sponge +1
Pinellas & Hillsborough BeachesPinellas County, FloridaPublic access · Agate, Carnelian, Chalcedony +2
Gulf Beaches (South)Collier County, FloridaPublic access · Fossilized Coral, Shark Tooth, Sponge +1
Key LargoMonroe County, FloridaPublic access · Fossilized Coral
Standout fossilized coral spots in Florida
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Englewood Beach
Charlotte County
Manasota Key at Englewood is the Charlotte County extension of the Venice shark tooth beaches, drawing fossil teeth and fossil coral from the same offshore Miocene bone bed.
Gulf Beaches
Sarasota County
Venice bills itself as the Shark Tooth Capital of the World, and the Sarasota County beaches around the Venice jetty sit above a Miocene to Pleistocene fossil layer that feeds fossil shark teeth onto the sand.
Best counties for fossilized coral in Florida
Ranked by the number of mapped fossilized coral spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Charlotte County1 spot
- Collier County1 spot
- Monroe County1 spot
- Pinellas County1 spot
- Sarasota County1 spot
