Period: Neogene Epoch: Early Late Oligocene through Pliocene Faunal stage: Chattian through early Blancan ~23.03 to ~2.588 mya, calculates to a period of 20.442 million years The Ocala Platform was originally named by Hopkins in 1920.

Due to the uncertainty of its creation, T. M. Scott[1] used the term "platform" in place of "uplift" or "arch".

This geologic feature was described as a gentle flexure developed in Tertiary sediments with a northwest–southeast trending crest by Vernon in 1951.

It has been suggested that the uplift was a pre-Hawthorn Group occurrence (Pirkle & Brooks 1959a).

Erosion after the Miocene has removed sediments of the Hawthorn Group from much of the crest of the Ocala Platform.