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
12. _Hickory, Washington County._—In 1875, Professor J. J. Stevenson (2d
Geol. Surv. Pennsylvania, K, p. 22) reported that a mastodon tooth had
been found in Mount Pleasant Township, in the county named. It was said
to have been discovered on the high divide between Raccoon and Chartiers
Creeks. The tooth is preserved at Washington and Jefferson College, at
Washington, in the county of the same name. Professor Edwin Linton has
informed the writer that the tooth was found about 1 or 1.5 miles
southeast of Hickory. This indicates that it was found along Westland
Run, probably about halfway down to the village of Westland. The
geological position and possible age will be discussed on page 323.
13. _Erie, Erie County._—In the Erie Public Museum the writer has seen a
part of a lower right hindermost molar of a mastodon which is labeled as
having been found long ago on what was called Frontier farm, about 2
miles west of the Public Library, below Eighth street and toward the
lake. The discovery is credited to W. F. Leutzer. The locality would
apparently be on Chase Creek, at an elevation of about 600 feet above
sea-level, unless it had possibly been buried along the creek in some
pre-Wisconsin formation. In lack of the information that ought to have
been preserved it may be impossible to arrive at any certain conclusion.
Mr. Clyde C. Hill, civil engineer, North East, Erie County, has informed
the writer that Chase Creek flows through the old Frontier farm.
OHIO.
(Maps 5, 7.)
IN UNGLACIATED REGION.
1. _Pike County._—In 1875 (Cincinnati Quart. Jour. Sci., vol. II, p.
154), J. H. Klippart wrote that the upper jaw of a mastodon, with a
considerable part of the cranium, had been found somewhere in this
county and had been on exhibition in the State Agricultural rooms. It
was owned by a Mr. Faust, of Galion or Crestline. Nothing more appears
to be known about this specimen.
2. _Nashport, Muskingum County._—In 1837 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XXXI,
p. 79), S. P. Hildreth, in an unsigned article, stated that mastodon
remains had been found 2 miles north of this place, during the
excavation of a canal. He recognized large portions of tusks and some
molar teeth. At the same place were found the skull which became the
type of _Castoroides ohioensis_, as well as a skull which Hildreth
described and named _Ovis mamillaris_, but which probably belonged to a
domestic sheep.
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