Vero, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)


Fundort: Vero, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Florida, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
Taxon: Homo sapiens aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Stratum 3 of Vero excavation produced most materials (= "muck bed"); Stratum 2 less productive but supposedly not significantly older plants are mostly from layer No. 3 and vertebrates are mostly from layer No. 2 according to Hrdlicka 1917, "The former [human skeleton] lay in dark and somewhat indurated sands, layer No. 2 of Sellards, the latter for the most part at the base of layer No. 3, the muck deposit of the stream bed... layer No. 2 is seen to be overlain by a stratum of similar, but somewhat lighter, sandy deposits covered by a layer of marl [ranging] from about 5 to 9 inches in thickness, and when freshly exposed is of the consistency of fresh mortar, but on exposure hardens to fairly solid rock... The second skeleton lay... in some loose white sand and vegetable matter at the base of the muck layer" (Hrdlicka 1917)
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,0117 und 0,126 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
Geologie, Sratigraphie Late Pleistocene / Late Pleistocene /
Koordinaten: 27° 38 ' 17 '' N, 80° 23 ' 50 '' W

Literatur

E. H. Sellards 1917, Review of the evidence on which the human remains found at Vero, Florida, are referred to the Pleistocene. Florida State Geological Survey Annual Report. 9, p. 69 - 81

Systematik