FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 



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younger, inasmuch as the old bog-covered sands had, since their 

 formation, endured for a time sufficient to permit their upper por- 

 tion to become firmly cemented by iron oxide into a fairly indurated 

 sandstone. 



INTERPRETED HISTORY OF THE BONES 



As is well described in Dr. Sellards' paper, human bones were 

 found in situ in formation No. 2, in close association with scattered 



Fig. 8. — The creek section on south bank of drainage canal, about "460 feet south- 

 west from railroad bridge. Many small pebbles (size of marbles) of black sandstone 

 here form a band in the lower portion of formation No. 2. 



bones and fragments of bones from a great variety of extinct mam- 

 mals, including the Columbian elephant, mastodon, saber-tooth 

 tiger, tapir, armadillo, sloth, bison, camel, horse, etc. This verte- 

 brate fauna, according to Dr. O. P. Hay, 1 would seem to represent 

 the early Pleistocene. But it should be noted again that, while 

 the human bones make up quite a part of two skeletons, the bones 

 of the extinct vertebrates are fragmentary and extremely scat- 

 tered. This fact, that the remains of the ancient vertebrates are 



1 Personal statement on the ground. 



