6. Palmetto, Manatee County.—In a small collection of fossil vertebrates sent from this place by Mr. Ernest Leitzel to the U. S. National Museum for identification were some fragments of antlers of Odocoileus.
7. Palma Sola, Manatee County.—From Mr. Charles T. Earle the U. S. National Museum received, in 1921, many fragments of antlers found on the beach at Palma Sola, about 10 miles below Palmetto and on the south side of Manatee River. With these came teeth of Equus leidyi, E. complicatus, E. littoralis, teeth and bone of Bison latifrons?, a tooth of Elephas columbi, and a fragment of the beak of a ziphoid porpoise. The last and various sharks’ teeth probably originated in Miocene deposits not far away. A list of the species found at this place and believed to belong to the Pleistocene is presented on page [379].
8. Arcadia, De Soto County.—In 1889 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1889, p. 96; U. S. Geol. Surv. Bull. No. 84, p. 129), Leidy reported the discovery of antlers of deer, Odocoileus (Cervus) virginianus, at Arcadia. These may have belonged to O. osceola or O. sellardsiæ. In 1884 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. VI, p. 428), Mr. S. T. Walker reported the finding of fossils, among them fragments of deer antlers, on sand-bars in Peace River, from a point about where the town of Hull now is to a point 8 miles by land above Fort Ogden, apparently not far from the present town of Owens. On this matter see Sellards (8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., p. 109). This locality and its fossils are further described on page [381].
9. Vero, St. Lucie County.—Numerous remains belonging to one or two species of Odocoileus have been found at Vero. Fragments of various parts of the skeleton and some teeth have been found in the two upper strata, No. 2 and No. 3, which lie above the marine marl. The writer (9th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., 1917, pp. 50–57, plate III, fig. 3) referred some of these bones to the new species, O. sellardsiæ. Possibly only this species is represented at that locality, but probably some of the bones belong to O. osceola. Lists of the species found in the two deposits bearing fossil vertebrates will be found on pages [381] to [383].
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1. Natchez, Adams County.—Dr. Leidy wrote (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1854, p. 199) as follows:
“Fossil bones of a deer not larger than the Cervus virginianus have been found in association with bones of the Megalonyx, Mastodon, etc., in the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi. In the cabinet of the Academy mentioned there are several specimens from the locality, consisting of a portion of a lower jaw, a fragment of an antler, and the posterior and inferior portions of two crania.”
The geology of this important locality is discussed on pages [389] to [393].
2. Aberdeen, Monroe County.—In 1869 (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., ser. 2, vol. VII, p. 376), Leidy stated that remains of a deer had been found at this place in a railroad cutting. No details were given.