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
5. _Port Kennedy, Montgomery County._—Many remains of the mastodon have
been found in the famous cave, or fissure, discovered at this place. The
first accounts of these fossils were published in 1871 (Cope, Proc.
Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. XII, pp. 15, 95; Wheatley, Amer. Jour. Sci.,
ser. 3, vol. I, pp. 235–237, 384–385). Cope (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., ser. 2, vol. XI, pp. 193–267) presented the results of a
thorough exploitation of the cave. For the nature of the remains of
mastodon found there the papers mentioned may be consulted. A list of
the associated fossils and a discussion of the geological features of
the case will be found in its proper place on page 312.
6. _Jackson Township, York County._—In the collection of the Academy at
Philadelphia there is a lower left hindermost molar of a mastodon which
is labeled as having been found in the township mentioned, but no
details regarding the exact locality and kind of deposit were furnished.
Jackson Township is situated in the west and northwestern part of York
County.
7. _Kishacoquillas Station, near Reedsville, Mifflin County._—In 1858
Professor H. D. Rogers (Geol. Pennsylvania, vol. I, p. 480) wrote that 4
grinders of a mastodon and a part of the skull had been found 3 miles
southwest of Brown’s Mills on Kishacoquillas Creek. The remains rested
on rounded pebbles and were covered with a few feet of alluvium.
Professor Mosheim Swartzell, of Washington, D. C., informs the present
writer that Brown’s Mills is located at the station Reedsville, and that
the tooth must have been found near the station.
8. _Chambersburg, Franklin County._—In 1806, Dr. B. S. Barton (Phila.
Med. and Phys. Jour., vol. II, p. 157) recorded that a large grinder of
Elephas americanus of Cuvier had been found in a field a few miles from
Chambersburg. The tooth was evidently that of a mastodon.
9. _Frankstown, Blair County._—Dr. W. J. Holland, in 1908 (Ann. Carnegie
Mus., vol IV, p. 233), reported remains of young mastodons from a cave
at the place named. They were associated with many other species of
mammals, a list of which will be presented on pages 321, 322.
10. _Bedford, Bedford County._—According to Cuvier (Oss. Foss., 4th ed.,
1834, vol. II, p. 274), Mitchill mentioned that remains of a mastodon
had been found at or near this place. The present writer has not seen
Mitchill’s statement.
11. _Pittsburgh, Allegheny County._—In 1876, Professor J. J. Stevenson
(2d Geol. Surv. Pennsylvania, K, p. 22), reported that numerous
fragments of bones and teeth had been found in the river bank at the
junction of Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers. They were said to have
been presented to a Pittsburgh high school.
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