HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO. 
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In the section as exposed in the canal bank there are distinct 
uninterrupted lines of stratification, beneath which human materials 
are found. One of these is a stratum of fresh-water marl which 
is best seen on the south bank of the canal. Beneath this marl have 
been found both human bones and bone implements. The photo¬ 
graph included in plate 5 of this report shows a bone implement in 
the south bank of the canal 32 feet west of the lateral inlet, lying 
beneath this marl at a depth of 4 feet from the surface. This im¬ 
plement was collected in March, 1917, and is No. 7786 of the 
Florida Survey collection. The marl at this place is about 1 foot 
thick, and may be traced laterally continuously along the canal bank 
to the locality where it reaches the maximum of about 18 inches in 
thickness. Human bones have been found beneath this marl, .as re¬ 
ported in papers previously published, at a place where it has a 
thickness of about 18 inches and is so well indurated as to form a 
hard rock. In this rock itself was found the tooth of a fox differ¬ 
ing from the modern fox of Florida (Fla. Geol. Surv., 8th Ann. 
Rep. p. 132, 1916). In general it is observed that the bone imple¬ 
ments, flints, pottery and human bones all lie below the stringers 
and layers containing fossil plants and animals, the association being 
such as to establish the fact that they are contemporaneous. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
The human remains and artifacts are contemporaneous with 
extinct species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and at least one extinct 
species of plants, as well as with other animal and plant species 
that do not at the present time extend their range into Florida. 
The age of the. deposits containing these fossils according to the 
accepted interpretation of faunas and floras is Pleistocene. 
