ON THE ASSOCIATION OF HUMAN REMAINS AND 

 EXTINCT VERTEBRATES AT VERO, FLORIDA 



E. H. SELLARDS 



State Geologist of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 



Sketch Map or the Locality 



Description of the Section including Strata Nos. 1,2, and 3 



Human Remains and Artifacts from Stratum No. 2 



Human Remains and Artifacts from Stratum No. 3 



Fossils from Stratum No. i 



Fossils from Stratum No. 2 



Fossils from Stratum No. 3 



Interpretation of the Section 



Relation of the Human Remains to the Associated Fossils 



The presence of vertebrate fossils in deposits exposed near Vero 

 in eastern Florida first became known in 19 13. Fossil human 

 remains were not found at this locality, however, until October, 

 191 5. Subsequently additional human skeletal material was 

 obtained in February, April, and June, 19 16. The associated 

 fossils, which are numerous and varied, have been collected practi- 

 cally continuously since the locality became known, although the 

 largest collections are those made in February, 191 5, and in Feb- 

 ruary, April, June, October, and November, 1916. During the 

 latter part of October the writer and his associates in Florida 

 enjoyed and profited by the presence at this locality of Drs. Hay, 

 MacCurdy, Hrdlicka, Vaughan, and Chamberlin, all of whom are 

 participants in the present discussion. The writer is also per- 

 sonally indebted to the several specialists in different branches of 

 paleontology who have identified and described fossils from this 

 locality, acknowledgment of which is made in the subsequent pages 

 of this paper. 



The discovery of human remains in association with extinct 

 vertebrates at this locality was announced by the writer in the 



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