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
24. _Roundhead, Hardin County._—In 1875 (Cin. Quart. Jour. Sci., vol.
II, p. 153), J. H. Klippart reported that considerable parts of the
skeleton of a mastodon had been exhumed at Fort McArthur, in Hardin
County, having evidently drifted out to the Scioto marsh and being
widely scattered. Fort McArthur does not appear on recent maps; a
gazetteer of 1835 locates the place in Logan County, 24 miles north of
Urbana. The locality appears to be in the neighborhood of Roundhead and
in the marshes in which Scioto and Miami Rivers take their rise.
25. _Washington Township, Auglaize County._—In Bulletin No. 16 of the
Geological Survey of Ohio, 1912, page 38, Mr. Alfred Dachnowski, quoting
from C. W. Williamson, stated that in 1878 Mr. S. Craig, while engaged
in surveying section 19 of Washington Township (Tp. 6 S., R. 5 E.)
discovered a mastodon skeleton. No further search had been made in 1905
(Williamson’s Hist. West. Ohio and Auglaize County, p. 336). While
doubtless a proboscidean was buried there, one can not be sure that it
was not an elephant. This place is not far from New Knoxville.
26. _Pusheta Township, Auglaize County._—From the same authorities it is
learned that in 1894 a mastodon calf was discovered in section 29 of the
township named (Tp. 6 S., R. 6 E.), embedded in a layer of muck at the
bottom of a circular pond. The skeleton is reported as having been quite
complete, but it went to pieces as it dried. The tusks were about 1 foot
long. At this place the waters flow into Clear Creek, a branch of
Auglaize River.
27. _Wapakoneta, Auglaize County._—The authorities quoted reported that
a mastodon had been discovered in a ditch excavation in section 33 of
Duchouquet Township (Tp. 5 S., R. 6 E.), not far from Wapakoneta. The
remains crumbled on exposure and drying. They may have been those of an
elephant.
28. _Duchouquet Township, Auglaize County._—The authorities on whom
reliance is here put state that in 1891 a mastodon was discovered by
some laborers who were deepening and widening the bed of a creek which
extends through section 22 of the township mentioned. This creek must
have been either Auglaize River or a branch of it, so unimportant that
it is not down on the topographical sheet of that quadrangle. The tusks
extended across the creek and were cut off by the workmen and carried
away.
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