Field guide
A searchable photo guide to what washes up on Florida beaches: shells, shark teeth, fossils, sea glass and sand dollars, with size, rarity and collecting rules.
184 entries across 11 categories
Cape San Blas · Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- Shells69 entries · Whelks, conchs, olives and everything in between
- Fossils22 entries · Bone, ray plates and ancient fragments
- Shark teeth20 entries · Fossil and modern teeth
- Tidepool life19 entries · Living things to photograph and release
- Sea glass14 entries · Frosted glass tumbled by the surf
- Sea beans10 entries · Drift seeds that crossed an ocean
- Sand dollars8 entries · Tests, biscuits and urchin relatives
- Rocks7 entries · Agates, coral rock and odd stones
- Marine debris6 entries · Drift material worth logging
- Not sure5 entries · Let BeachNut work it out
- Beach pottery4 entries · Tumbled ceramic and porcelain
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Agatized Coral
Fossil Anthozoa
Check local rules
Alligator Osteoderm
Alligator mississippiensis
Archaeological, leave in place
Alphabet Cone
Conus spurius
Angel Shark Tooth
Squatina species
Check local rules
Angel Wing
Cyrtopleura costata
Restricted
Angulate Wentletrap
Epitonium angulatum
Restricted
Apple Murex
Phyllonotus pomum
Restricted
Aqua Sea Glass
Aqua soda-lime glass
Arrowhead Sand Dollar
Encope michelini
Restricted
Atlantic Auger
Terebra dislocata
Restricted
Atlantic Bittersweet
Glycymeris undata
Restricted
Atlantic Calico Scallop
Argopecten gibbus