VERTEBRATA AT VERO. 
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VERTEBRATA MOSTLY FROM STRATUM NO. 3, AT 
VERO, FLORIDA, TOGETHER WITH DESCRIP¬ 
TIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 
By OLIVER P. HAY. 
ASSOCIATE OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 
The writer has been permitted to study a collection of fossil 
vertebrates which Dr. E. H. Sellards, State Geologist of Florida, 
and his assistant, Mr. Herman Gunter, and others had made at dif¬ 
ferent times in the Pleistocene deposits at Vero, Florida. The 
fossils noted below, some of which are described at length, were 
found in what has come to be known as No. 3, or as the “muck 
beck” I11 the following list those species whose names are preceded 
by f are extinct: 
I. CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 
FISHES. 
1. Aetobatis narinari. Spotted sting ray. 
A section of a tooth plate. 
2. Lepisosteus platystomus. Short-nosed gar pike. 
A right dentary and one other bone. 
3. Amiatus calvus (Amia calva of authors). Bowfin. 
The left articular and a left dentary with teeth. 
4. Caranx hippos. Crevalle. 
An inflated bone belonging beneath the clavicle. 
5. Caranx sp. indet.; not C. hippos. 
Inflated bones belonging in the median plane and supporting the 
fin-rays. 
AMPHIBIANS. 
6. Amphiuma means. Congo snake. 
Three vertebrae examined. 
7. Siren lacertina. Siren. 
A single vertebra seen. 
REPTILES. 
8. Caretta caretta. The loggerhead turtle. 
A right squamosal bone. 
