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
37. _Old Fort, Seneca County._—At Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio,
the writer was told of a mastodon which had been found at Old Fort, and
was in the possession of Mr. J. A. Gillmor, of Fremont, Ohio. Upon
inquiry Mr. Gillmor stated that the tooth, of which he sent a sketch,
had been found in 1909 in a low and marshy piece of tiled ground which
lies east of Sandusky River, opposite Old Fort. The tooth was very
superficially buried, for it was turned up by the plow. Mr. Gillmor
stated that in constructing the Nickel Plate Railroad, not far from
where the tooth was found, some large bones had been discovered. The
locality is north of Defiance moraine and on the old bed of Lake Maumee.
38. _Bucyrus, Crawford County._—In 1838, as told by the geologists C.
Briggs (Second Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, pp. 127–129) and J. W. Foster
(Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 1, vol. XXXVI, 1839, p. 189, fig. 1), a nearly
perfect skull and various parts of the skeleton were found near Bucyrus,
on the land of a Mr. Hahn, during the excavation of a mill-race, and in
a bed of fresh-water shell marl about 4 feet thick. Both tusks were,
however, missing. There were secured also 6 cervical vertebræ, 6
dorsals, 1 lumbar, 5 caudals, 28 ribs, most of the pelvis, and several
limb-bones. The fine skull was sent to the American Philosophical
Society in Philadelphia, and is now preserved in the Academy of Natural
Sciences of that city. What was done with the remainder of the skeleton
the present writer does not know. This specimen has been referred to by
several authors. N. H. Winchell (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. II, pt. 1, 1874,
p. 247) stated that the skeleton was embedded in the muck and marl of a
swamp and that what remained of it was then in possession of the Ohio
Agricultural and Mechanical College. The locality was probably near
Celina moraine.
39. _Sandusky, Erie County._—In 1848 (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, vol. V,
p. 215), Whittlesey wrote that a tusk and a few bones of mastodon or
elephant had been uncovered at the deep cut of the Mansfield Railroad, a
few miles from Sandusky, in a Recent bog of muck. J. H. Klippart (Cin.
Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. II, 1875, p. 153) referred to the tusk and said
that a part of it was preserved in the Homœopathic College at Sandusky.
It is impossible now to say whether this belonged to a mastodon or an
elephant. If still preserved it may be possible to determine the genus
from the microscopical structure of the ivory.
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