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
33. _Liberty Township, Putnam County._—In 1874, Professor N. H. Winchell
(Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. II, pt. 1, p. 392) told of the finding of large
bones, supposed to belong to a mastodon, just southeast of the center of
section 6, in draining the Medary marsh, in the township named (Tp. 2
N., R. 7 E.) The bones were in a sandy loam along the north side of the
Leipsic ridge, a part of the Defiance moraine. Another was found in
section 8 of the same township. The remains consisted of two teeth,
bones of the posterior extremities, and a fragment of a tusk. The
limb-bone was removed 23 feet from the tusk. These remains lay at a
depth of about 3 feet from the surface. Other large bones, mastodon or
elephant, were found in section 7, Ottawa Township (Tp. 1 N., R. 7 E.).
This was evidently on the south side of the ridge mentioned, but yet
probably north of Blanchard River.
34. _Springfield Township, Lucas County._—In 1873 (Geol. Surv. Ohio,
vol. I, pt. 1, p. 556), Dr. G. K. Gilbert wrote that Dr. J. B. Trembley,
of Toledo, had informed him that a tooth of a mastodon had been obtained
from a marsh in Springfield, Lucas County. It is probable that Gilbert
meant Springfield Township. He could not ascertain the exact locality,
but he remarked that all the marshes of that township date from the
formation of the lowest and most recent of the raised beaches and that
it was almost certain that the tooth is not less recent than they.
Springfield Township is nearly in the center of this county.
In 1886 (Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. IV, p. 309), Dr. E. Sterling,
of Cleveland, wrote that about 15 years previously a mastodon skeleton
had been found in a cranberry swamp in Lucas County; but no more exact
location was given. A large ditch was being made where the muck of the
bog was about 8 feet deep and rested on a layer of “hard pan.” The
skeleton was badly decayed. What proof the writer had that the remains
belonged to the mastodon is not stated.
35. _Jackson Township, Wood County._—From a clipping taken from the
Toledo Blade of January 15, 1919, with 2 illustrations, it is learned
that Mr. John Welsh, of the township named, while digging a trench on
his farm, unearthed a tooth of a mastodon. The pictures show that it was
a considerably worn, lower right hindermost molar. Jackson Township (Tp.
3 N., R. 9 E.) is in the southwestern corner of the county. From Mr.
Welsh the writer learns that the locality is 3.5 miles northeast of
Deshler and in section 17. The tooth was buried at a depth of 4 feet.
The locality is well within the area covered by old Lake Maumee.
36. _Carey, Wyandot County._—In April, 1911, Mr. O. N. Copley, Cary,
sent to the Smithsonian Institution a much-worn lower left first true
molar, found at Cary, in muck, at a depth of 3 feet. With it was found
also a canine tooth of a bear, apparently _Ursus americanus_. These were
buried near the Defiance moraine.
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