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THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



Art. I. — On the Discovery of Fossil Human Remains in 

 Florida in Association with Extinct Vertebrates; by E. H. 

 Sellakds. 



A sew and very important locality for vertebrate, inverte- 

 brate, and plant fossils was found in 1913 at Vero on the 

 Atlantic Coast in Central-Eastern Florida, the occurrence of 

 fossils at this place having first become known as a result of 

 the construction of a drainage canal made by the Indian River 

 Farms Company. Throughout the greater part of its course 

 this canal, which extends from the coast several miles inland, 

 cuts through the surface materials including sand, marl, and 

 muck beds, and into marine shell marl. In the marine marl, 

 invertebrates are found in abundance and in an excellent state 

 of preservation, while in the sands, fresh-water marls, and muck 

 beds, vertebrates and fresh-water invertebrates are not infre- 

 quently preserved. The chief locality for vertebrate and plant 

 fossils, however, is at the public road crossing one-half mile 

 north of Vero, where the canal cuts into an old stream bed. 

 The canal enters the stream bed about 500 feet west of the 

 crossing, and follows it while passing under the bridge and for 

 500 or 600 feet beyond, or for a total distance of about 1,000 

 feet (Sketch map, fig. 1). 



Although this locality has been known and collected from for 

 nearly three years, it has now acquired a new interest by the 

 discovery, during the past year, of human remains in associa- 

 tion with the vertebrate, fresh-water invertebrate, and plant 

 fossils. The results obtained at this locality are of exceptional 

 value since in addition to a record of early man in America, 

 there are here preserved the fauna and flora with which man 

 was then associated. 



Am. Jour. Scr. — Fourth Series, Vol. XLII, No. 247. — July, 1916. 



