Eupatagus , sea urchins, sand dollars, and related animals are called echinoids. Eupatagus lived in shallow seas that covered Florida during the Eocene Epoch, about thirty-eight million years ago. It burrowed in the mud. The staff at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville also thought Eupatagus might make a good state fossil. But Eupatagus has not been officially adopted as Florida's state fossil.
Some people note that Florida already has an official fossil.
It is agatized coral, adopted as the state stone. State Soil State Stone .