A number of Pleistocene animals became extinct, including the saber-toothed tiger, mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, certain musk oxen, and the giant ground sloth.

The site has yielded bones of Pleistocene animals and bones and artifacts of Paleo-Indians and people of the Archaic period.

Human bones, teeth and artifacts were found in association with the bones of Pleistocene animals at the sinkhole.

As simple proximity of bones does not prove that humans were contemporaries of Pleistocene animals at the Cutler site, evidence of human modification of animal bones was sought.

Human remains and/or artifacts have been found in association with the remains of Pleistocene animals at a number of locations in Florida.

Similar human remains, Pleistocene animals and Paleo-Indian artifacts have been found in the general locale, consistent with these discoveries.

In 1979 a sinkhole on the Deering Estate was found to contain bones of Pleistocene animals associated with bones and artifacts of early humans.

Notable items in this collection include the fossilized bones of Pleistocene animals exhibiting butcher and cut marks, numerous stone Paleoindian projectile points, and carved ivory shafts.

The archaeologists also found bones of several Pleistocene animals, including a giant ground sloth, a saber-toothed cat, a horse, and a camelid.

Fossil records of the American mink go back as far as the Irvingtonian, though the species is uncommon among Pleistocene animals.