152 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
along the canal bank in stratum No. 2. The species apparently 
is identical with the modern Lutra canadensis. 
SMILODON. 
PI. 28, fig. i; pi. 29, fig. 8. 
A saber-tooth tiger, referred provisionally to the genus, Sinilo- 
don, is represented by a saber-tooth, a carnassial tooth and. a foot 
bone. Of these the saber-tooth was found in place in stratum No. 
2 at the same locality and one foot or more above the level at which 
the specimen showing engravings on bone and on tusk were ob¬ 
tained. 
VULPES. 
PI. 30, fig. 4. 
From both strata 2 and 3 have been obtained teeth of a fox 
which is very close to, if not identical with the red fox, Vulpcs 
pcnnsylvaniciis which at the present time is not known to occur in 
Florida'. The specimen from stratum No. 2 consists of a single 
premolar tooth imbedded in marl rock. That in stratum No. 3 in¬ 
cludes a part of the lower jaw containing two premolar teeth. 
PROCYON. 
A raccoon which apparently is not separable from the modern 
species, Procyon lotor, is found in stratum No. 3. From stratum 
No. 2 the writer has obtained a single molar tooth, representing 
the same or a very closely related species. 
LYNX. 
PI. 28, fig. 3. 
A lynx from stratum No. 3 is represented by a tibia and a lower 
jaw. This lynx differs from the modern lynx now found in Flor¬ 
ida by a large canine which crowds upon and reduces the space 
available for the incisors; the diastema between the canine and the 
premolars is reduced, the jaw as a whole is thicker, and the teeth 
more closely crowded than in the modern species. 
CAN IS. 
CANIS AYERSI, SP. NOV. 
PI. 24; pi. 30, figs. 1 and 3. 
Among the vertebrate material obtained at Vero is a large 
wolf represented in the collection by a skull and a femur, found in 
