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
11. _Six miles west of Greenville, Darke County._—The writer has been
informed by Mr. Calvin Young, living west of Greenville, that, a good
many years ago, a considerable part of a skeleton of a mastodon had been
exhumed on Kraut Creek, on the farm of Absalom Shade, in the southeast
quarter of section 34, township 12 north, range 1 east. One tusk was
broken up by the workmen in order to discover what kind of wood it was.
A lower jawbone, containing large molars, was 3 feet 2 inches long. The
remains were sold to John Collett, sent to a museum in Terre Haute, and
finally destroyed in a fire. The remains were originally found at a
depth of 5 feet and scattered about in sand and overlain by vegetable
mold and peat.
In a letter of March 9, 1915, Mr. Young wrote that another mastodon had
been found 6 miles west of Greenville. The remains were buried at a
depth of 2.5 feet and lay on a bed of sand and gravel. Teeth and a tusk
10 feet long were observed, but the skeleton was not exhumed. These
fossils were found on or near the Sidney moraine.
12. _Greenville, Darke County._—The collection at Greenville contains an
upper left hindermost molar of a mastodon said to have been found in
Greenville Creek, about 0.75 mile west of the town. Another tooth, an
upper left second molar, was found nearly northeast of the town, but how
far is not stated. Mastodon remains were said by Joseph Moore (Amer.
Geologist, vol. XII, p. 73) to have been found associated with the giant
beaver, somewhere near Greenville.
These remains also must have been buried near the Sidney moraine,
probably in swamps along its border.
13. _Ansonia, Darke County._—In the collection at Greenville nearly
complete ossa innominata, right and left, and some vertebræ are
preserved, all found on the farm of Hezekiah Woods, in section 9 of
township 13 north, range 2 east, at the headwaters of Stillwater Creek.
A considerable part of the south of this section is occupied by a swamp.
Around this runs the contour-line of 1,000 feet above sea-level.
14. _Troy, Miami County._—Mr. H. C. Shetrone, of the Ohio Archæological
Museum, at Columbus, reported in 1914 that remains of a mastodon had
been found in a depression about 3 miles from Troy. A company engaged in
draining the pond and in digging found the bones. A lower jaw containing
teeth was secured, as well as an upper tooth. The tusks had not been
found. Troy is on the Loramie River, situated between the Englewood and
Sidney moraines. The remains certainly belong to the latter part of the
Wisconsin stage or later. Professor W. C. Mills writes that the remains
were found on the farm of Mr. Wheeler, 3 miles southeast of Troy. A
swampy kettlehole was being drained.
15. _Catawba, Clark County._—In 1875 (Cin. Quart. Jour. Sci., vol. II,
p. 154), J. H. Klippart wrote that a considerable part of a skeleton of
a mastodon had been found in Clark County and had been placed in
Wittenberg College, at Springfield. No details were furnished.
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