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
17. _South Bloomfield, Pickaway County._—In 1834 (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser.
1, vol. XXV, p. 256), in an unsigned article, S. P. Hildreth reported
the discovery of mastodon teeth and ribs in an excavation for a culvert
in a small stream, a mile east of Bloomfield, now called South
Bloomfield, where a canal was being constructed. The teeth were in a
fine state of preservation. At the same place was found the tooth of an
elephant. These remains are said to have been embedded in a black boggy
earth.
18. _Circleville, Pickaway County._—In 1820 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. II,
p. 245), Caleb Atwater stated that a large thigh bone of a mastodon had
a short time before been found near the town in digging a mill-race.
Here again there must be doubt regarding the identification of the
animal.
19. _Pickaway Plains, Pickaway County._—This name is given to a level
tract lying about 5 miles southwest of Circleville and east of Scioto
River. In the article cited above, Caleb Atwater stated that he had 2
teeth of a mastodon, one of which had been found in a small rivulet near
the “Pickaway Plains.” This tooth is illustrated by figures 1 and 2 B,
of plate II, of the paper cited. It is evidently a tooth of _Mammut
americanum_. The locality would be not far from the broad terminal
Wisconsin moraine.
20. _Salt Creek Township, Pickaway County._—The writer just quoted
reported that the other mastodon tooth which he owned had been found in
the bed of Salt Creek, 22 feet 9 inches below the surface. This tooth is
figured on plate II of Atwater’s paper above cited.
21. _Shadeville, Franklin County._—In the collection of the University
of Ohio, the writer has seen a tooth of a mastodon which was found at
Shadeville. This place is on Scioto River, a few miles below Columbus.
It is probably of Late Wisconsin age.
51. _Granville, Licking County._—In 1873 (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 3, vol.
V, p. 79), L. E. Hicks reported that he had examined the left side of
the pelvis of a mastodon found in the bank of Raccoon Creek, near
Granville, along the route of the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway. This
place is on the west border of the Grand River moraine.
22. _Mount Gilead, Morrow County._—In Ward’s Natural History
Establishment, at Rochester, New York, the writer has seen an upper left
third molar of a mastodon, labeled as having been found at this place.
No details accompanied the specimen. The tooth is 158 mm. long and 95
mm. wide, and has a large pulp-cavity. Mount Gilead is on the moraine
which forms the eastern limb of the Scioto lobe. The tooth may be with
safety regarded as of Late Wisconsin age.
23. _Harper, Logan County._—In Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, are 2
molars of a mastodon, the lower second and the third, which were found
somewhere in the vicinity of Harper.
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