FURTHER STUDIES AT VERO, FLORIDA 



671 



puzzling combination of bones of extinct animals of supposedly 

 Middle Pleistocene age mingled with fragments of human pottery 

 of almost obvious recency. 



The actual presence of bones of the extinct animals in this 

 Pleistocene marshy area was not observed, for, on the first visit, 

 time did not permit an adequate examination. And so a leading 



Fig. 2. — The formations of the creek section exposed by digging into the south 

 bank of the canal near point marked N in Fig. 4. No. 1 represents the marine shell 

 marl (coquina) grading upward into light-colored sands; No. 2 is the lower creek 

 filling of variously stained sands (Sellards' formation No. 2); No. 3 represents the 

 upper creek filling (Sellards' formation No. 3), consisting of alternate layers and lenses 

 of sand and muck; No. 4 is the loose dump material piled on the surface in excavating 

 the canal. 



purpose of the second visit was to search the older upland forma- 

 tions for direct fossil evidence on this point. This search was not 

 successful in finding bones of the extinct animals, either in situ, or 

 in the canal dump from the upland area through which the two 

 forks of the creek have cut. The conditions that prevailed at the 

 time of the marsh deposit to the west of the barrier ridge seem to 

 have been inhospitable to life of the types of the extinct animals 



