HUMAN REMAINS AND ASSOCIATED FOSSILS. 
H5 
BATRACHIANS. 
Batrachians are represented in this stratum by limb bones and 
vertebrae. The parts obtained are for the most part fragmentary 
and hence difficult of identification. 
REPTILES. 
The reptiles present include snakes, lizards, turtles and an alli¬ 
gator. Snake vertebrae are particularly abundant. The collection 
contains also a fang- of one of the poisonous snakes. Among the 
crocodilian bones from this horizon is a nearly complete skeleton 
of an alligator which is close to or identical with the modern Alli¬ 
gator mdssissip p i ensis*. 
The turtles found at Vero have been described, by Dr. O. P. 
Hay and the following list of species is taken from his paper. 
(This volume, pp. 39-76.) Those species that have been found in 
place in stratum No. 2 are indicated by the use of the dagger. The 
remaining species are referred provisionally to this horizon al¬ 
though some of them may have been derived from either the marine 
shell marl beneath or from the overlying deposits. Of the seven 
species recognized five are new. A list of turtles from the next suc¬ 
ceeding horizon. No. 3, will be found on a subsequent page. 
TURTLES FROM STRATUM NO. 2 IDENTIFIED BY DR. O. P. HAY. 
Terrapene innoxia.f Gopherus praecedens. 
Chelydra laticarinata.f Trachemys bisornata. 
Testudo sellardsi.t Trachemys sculpta. 
Testudo luciae. 
The complete carapace which forms the type specimen of Ter¬ 
rapene innoxia, as well as the second specimen which served as a 
paratype in Dr. Hay's description of the species were taken by the 
writer in place in stratum No. 2 in the south bank of the canal 
about 480 feet west of the bridge. The exposure in the bank at 
the place where these two specimens were taken is seen in text-fig¬ 
ure 6. A third carapace of this species has been found, in stratum 
No. 3. The type specimen of Chelydra laticaruiata Hay was taken 
in place in the north bank of the canal 370 feet west of the bridge. 
The section at this place is given in text-figure 4. Testudo sel- 
lardsi is the more common of the two large tortoises found at this 
locality. The specimens which serve as the type of this species 
were thrown out by the dredge, hence their exact position in the 
* This alligator differs somewhat from the modern species although further 
comparison must be made in order to determine its relationship. 
