VERTEBRATES FROM MIOCENE, PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE. IO5 
identified from well drillings at Kissimmee in Osceola County, and 
are found extensively in the vicinity of Fellsmere in the northwest¬ 
ern part of St. Lucie County. It is probable in fact that they un¬ 
derlie the whole of the St. Johns River valley extending thence 
south to the Everglades. The thickness of the Pleistocene of the 
Florida East Coast likewise is considerable. Thus from the well 
at Ormond invertebrates were obtained at a depth of 66 and 68 
feet which were believed to indicate the Pleistocene age of the 
beds, while at West Palm Beach Pleistocene shells were obtained to 
a depth of about 70 feet.* 
The fossil vertebrates on the Atlantic Coast are thus shown to 
be Pleistocene since they are found in deposits which lie upon 
marine Pleistocene shell marl. Of special importance in this con¬ 
nection is the fact that the position of these beds is such as to pre¬ 
clude the possibility of the mixing of earlier fossils with those of 
the Pleistocene period. An opportunity is thus afforded of obtain¬ 
ing a representation of the undoubted mid or late Pleistocene verte¬ 
brate fauna of Florida. 
Daytona. —From the marl pits worked for road material at 
Daytona, the writer has obtained through Mr. Morris, the tip of 
a tusk of a mastodon or elephant and from Dr. Carroll, the rib 
of a cetacean, probably representing the genus Balaenoptera. Mr. 
Morris has in his possession also a tooth of Elcphas colmnbi. All 
of these specimens were taken from marl pits near Daytona. 
Fellsmere. —A few fossil vertebrates have been found in con¬ 
nection with the construction of drainage canals at Fellsmere. 
Among the species recognized were Manumit aniericanum and 
Elepitas colmnbi, both being represented by teeth. As in the case 
of the other localities on -the Atlantic Coast, the vertebrate fossils 
are found either in or upon Pleistocene shell marl. The same 
fauna is found at Eau Gallie about 30 miles north of Fellsmere, 
where the teeth of Elcphas columbi and Equus complicatus have 
been collected from the Hopkins’ Drainage Canal. 
Palm Beach Canal. —From the Palm Beach Canal, constructed 
in connection with the drainage of the Everglades, Mr. J. L. Hayes 
has obtained for the State Geological Survey teeth of Elcphas 
colmnbi and Equus complicatus, and a femur of Bison sp. The 
writer also obtained from this canal about eight miles west of 
the crossing of the Florida East Coast Railroad, several teeth of 
* Fla. State Geol. Surv. Second Annual Report, p. 152, 1909. 
