HUMAN REMAINS AND ASSOCIATED FOSSILS. 
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mains while they were still in place in the undisturbed wall of the 
canal. Additional collections at this locality have been made by 
H. Gunter and the writer. Acknowledgments are due to the offi¬ 
cials of the U. S. National Museum, the American Museum of 
Natural History and the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, for 
facilities afforded in consulting collections. The turtles of the Pleis¬ 
tocene of Florida contained in the Florida State Geological Survey 
collection, including those found at Vero, have been identified and 
described by Dr. O. P. Hay of the Carnegie Institution. The photo¬ 
graphs included in this paper, except those of plates 15, 16 and. 17 
were made bv E. P. Greene. The chemical analyses have been made 
by L. Heimberger, under the direction of R. E. Rose, State Chemist 
of Florida. The drawings illustrating specimens have been made by 
Sydney Prentice, and those showing geologic sections by H. Gunter. 
The fresh-water invertebrates found in the stratum containing hu¬ 
man remains have been identified by Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Na¬ 
tional Museum. The co-operation and assistance thus received is 
very much appreciated. 
THE GEOLOGIC SECTION AT VERO. 
It is desirable, before describing the human remains, to con¬ 
sider the general geologic section at Vero, as well as the late geo¬ 
logic history of this part of the Atlantic Coast. The marine shell 
marl into which the canal cuts, number 1 of the section shown in 
text-figure 2, is a part of the extensive series of marine marls which 
border the Atlantic Coast, beginning on the north near St. Augus¬ 
tine, where the marl is known as “Coquina” rock, and extending 
south to the Everglades of Florida, beyond which the shell marls 
give place to the shallow-water limestones of extreme southern 
Florida. These marls and limestones are known by their inverte¬ 
brate fauna to be of Pleistocene age*. To this extensive deposit 
of marine shell marl bordering the Atlantic Coast, the writer in 
1912 applied the term Anastasia formation, this name having been 
selected because of the fact that the shell marl was first quarried 
and described on Anastasia Island near St. AugustineC 
The sands which as a rule overlie the shell marls are in part of 
marine origin, having acumulated in shoal waters, or as beaches 
■ * A list of the invertebrate fossils from this shell marl at Eau Gallie, about 
40 miles north of Vero, is given on page 151 of the Second Annual Report of 
the Florida Geological Survey. 1909. 
t Fla. State Geol. Surv., Fourth Annual Report, p. 18, 1912. 
