FOSSIL VERTEBRATES FROM FLORIDA: A NEW MI¬ 
OCENE FAUNA.; NEW PLIOCENE SPECIES; THE 
PLEISTOCENE FAUNA. 
(plates 10-14.) 
E. H. SELLARDS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Attention was first effectively called to the vertebrate fossils of 
Florida in the early eighties. Among those who were active in 
collecting material from Florida at that time were J. Frances Le- 
Baron, John C. Neal, Samuel T. Walker, W. H. Dali, L. C. John¬ 
son, Joseph Willcox and J. B. Hatcher. 
In 18S1 J. Frances LeBaron made a collection of fossil verte¬ 
brates from Peace Creek which was forwarded to the Smithsonian 
Institution together with pebble phosphate rock for which the col¬ 
lection was chiefly made. This material ultimately reached Pro¬ 
fessor Leidy and formed a part of the Peace Creek collections 
studied by him. Collections of Pliocene vertebrates were made by 
Dr. J. C. Neal from localities near Archer for the Smithsonian 
Institution in 1883, and for the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia in 1885. Additional collections from the localities 
near Archer were made for the United States Geological Survey 
by W. H. Dali in 1885; by L. C. Johnson in 1887, and by J. B. 
Hatcher in 1889. In 1888 Joseph Willcox in company with Wm. 
M. Meiggs, visited the Peace Creek beds. Phosphate mining from 
the bed of the river was then in progress and through the assist¬ 
ance of T. S. Moorhead, who was operating one of the mines, Mr. 
Willcox was able to secure a very important collection of the fos- 
sils of that locality. During the same year Mr. Willcox obtained 
the very interesting lot of material afterwards described by Pro¬ 
fessor Leidy from the rock quarries at Ocala. Florida. I11 addition 
to these important localities Mr. Willcox also obtained vertebrate 
fossils from the Caloosahatchee River, Sarasota Bay and Stump 
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