11. Williston, Levy County.—In the U. S. National Museum there are some foot-bones of a large ground-sloth, which are labeled as having been collected in 1887 by the U. S. Geological Survey, in the county named. The collector was probably J. B. Hatcher. The astragalus had evidently been studied by Leidy. This bone was described by the writer in 1919 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. LVI, p. 104, plate XXVII) as Thinobadistes segnis. Later, other parts of the foot were found in the museum and described (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. LIX, p. 638, plate CXIX, figs. 6–11).
3. Ocala, Marion County.—In 1888, in a fissure in a limestone quarry, probably Phillip’s quarry, near Ocala, Mr. Joseph Willcox discovered some vertebrate remains which were later described by Leidy (Trans. Wagner Free Inst., vol. II, pp. 13–17, plate III, figs. 1, 5, 6 to 9). The species as determined by Leidy were Elephas columbi, Equus fraternus, Auchenia minima, and Machairodus floridanus. They were regarded as belonging to the Quaternary, but in Dall’s paper of 1892 (Bull. 84, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 129) they are referred to the age of the Alachua clays; that is, to the Pliocene. Sellards, in 1916 (8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., p. 103), regards the fossils as belonging to the Pleistocene, and he adds representatives of 4 genera to the list. These are undetermined species of Bison, Odocoileus, Dasypus, and Sylvilagus. The genus Dasypus is the one to which attention is especially called at this time. A list of the vertebrate animals found at this place is presented on page [378].
4. Dunnellon, Marion County.—In Sellards’s report just referred to, he prints a list of the Pleistocene vertebrates found in Withlacoochee River. Among these is the xenarthrid animal Chlamytherium septentrionale. What parts were secured and exactly at what place the writer does not know.
In the collection of the Florida Geological Survey is a foot-bone, No. 1307, which appears to be the second right metacarpal of Megalonyx. It is smaller than the one figured by Leidy. The extreme length is 60 mm., the greatest diameter of the proximal end 27 mm., that of the distal end 36 mm. It was found in the mine of the Dunnellon Phosphate Company. For a list of the associated species the reader is referred to page 376.
5. Hillsboro River, Hillsboro County.—In 1915 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XL, p. 139), Sellards stated that the Jarman collection at Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, contains several dermal plates of Chlamytherium septentrionale, found in Hillsboro River.
6. Sarasota Bay, Sarasota County.—In 1915, Sellards (op. cit., p. 143) reported that the collection of Wagner Free Institute at Philadelphia contains one dermal plate of Chlamytherium septentrionale found by Joseph Willcox at White Beach, on Sarasota Bay.
The American Museum of Natural History, New York, possesses a dermal plate of a xenarthrid, collected by Barnum Brown 8 miles southeast of Sarasota. This probably belonged to the animal mentioned above.
7. Zolfo, Hardee County.—Dr. W. D. Matthew has informed the writer that there are in the American Museum of Natural History some bones of a very large individual of Megatherium, reported as having been found near Zolfo. An astragalus, the proximal part of a humerus, the distal part of a radius, and the proximal part of a femur were mentioned. These bones may be referred provisionally to Megatherium mirabile Leidy.
8. Vero, St. Lucie County.—At this place there have been found remains representing 4 genera of xenarthrids, as follows: Megalonyx, Mylodon, Chlamytherium, and Dasypus.
Megalonyx jeffersonii is represented by a part of a lower jaw, a right upper canine tooth, a molar tooth, a part of a hyoid bone, an axis, an astragalus, a median phalanx, and a claw (Sellards, 8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., p. 148, plate XXV, fig. 2; plate XXX, fig. 6). These were all found in the stratum denominated No. 2 in the report just cited.