The Pleistocene of North America: and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°Hay, Oliver Perry
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The Pleistocene of North America: and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°
Hay, Oliver Perry
Paleontology -- North America; Paleontology -- Pleistocene; Vertebrates, Fossil
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.
_Mylodon harlani?_ is known from a single claw, but from which stratum
it was derived is not known.
_Chlamytherium_ is represented by a part of the right side of the lower
jaw, a part of the left side, a foot-bone, and numerous dermal plates
(Sellards, op. cit., p. 148, plate XXVIII, figs. 4 to 6; plate XXX, fig.
7). Most of these remains have been taken from stratum No. 2, but some
finely preserved dermal plates have been collected from No. 3.
_Dasypus_ remains, consisting of dermal scutes, have been found in both
No. 2 and No. 3.
In the collection of the Florida Geological Survey (No. 1795) is a bone,
apparently the right parietal of an undetermined xenarthrid. It was
found in the canal of the Indian River Farms Company, east of the
railway and near Indian River. The length of the bone at the midline is
70 mm. and here the thickness is 22 mm. There appears to have been no
median crest and only a feebly indicated occipital crest. There is no
rough surface for the temporal muscles, as in _Nothrotherium_, and the
bone is thicker than in that genus.
For complete lists of the fossil vertebrates found at Vero, see page
382.
9. _Arcadia, De Soto County._—The _Xenarthra_ are represented in the
Pleistocene deposits about Arcadia by the genera _Megalonyx_,
_Glyptodon_, and _Chlamytherium_. If these were not found at Arcadia
they were collected along Peace Creek, not far from the town. A list of
the species found in the vicinity of Arcadia is given on page 380.
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