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
40. _Brownhelm Township, Lorain County._—In the collection of Oberlin
College are many bones of a mastodon, some jaws and teeth, and a part of
the skull, collected about 1898, on the farm of a Mr. French, in the
township named, not far from the shore of Lake Erie. Professor Lynds
Jones, of Oberlin College, has sent the information that this mastodon
was found in a county ditch in township 6 N., range 19 W., about where
the ditch crosses from lot 29 to 30, on what is known as the North Ridge
road. This ridge is mentioned by J. S. Newberry (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol.
II, 1874, p. 207, map opp. p. 58), and has an elevation of from 100 to
118 feet above Lake Erie. It represents the beach of old Lake Warren.
According to Professor Lynds Jones, the mastodon had been buried in a
morass between two branches of the North Ridge or old beach. This was of
course well along toward the close of the Pleistocene period.
41. _Pittsfield Township, Lorain County._—In the collection at Oberlin
College are some fragments of mastodon teeth, found somewhere in
Pittsfield township (Tp. 4 N., R. 18 W.) at a depth of about 2 or 3
feet, in a ditch. No further details have been secured.
In the American Museum of Natural History, at New York, is a lower right
second molar which had been received from Mr. J. J. Crook. It had
probably been found somewhere about Lagrange, but this is not certain.
42. _Cleveland, Cuyahoga County._—The geologist Charles Whittlesey
(Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. XV, art. 3, p. 15) stated that, many
years before he wrote, a grinder of a mastodon had been found on the
west side of Cuyahoga River, in the valley alluvium, resting on drift
clay near the lake level. This might indicate one of three things: The
mastodon belonged to some pre-Wisconsin stage; or the tooth had, after
the retirement of the lake to its present level, been washed down from
above; or the animal had lived there after the lake had reached about
its present level.
Newberry (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. I, pt. 1, 1873, p. 183) stated that his
“Delta Sand Deposit,” which forms the surface of the Cleveland plateau,
had yielded numerous portions of the skeletons of elephant and mastodon.
These could hardly have existed before the retirement of the lake within
the Warren beach.
Klippart (Cin. Quart. Jour. Nat. Sci., vol. II, 1875, p. 153) says that
a nearly complete skeleton of a mastodon was dug up in the immediate
vicinity of Cleveland, but had been broken into pieces at once by the
workmen. The identity of this specimen is doubtful and the exact
locality is unknown.
43. _Medina County._—In 1875 (op. cit., p. 153), Klippart reported that
nearly 50 years before he wrote tusks, said to have been 12 feet long,
and some parts of the skeleton of a mastodon had been taken out of a
marl pit in this county. As in other cases, there is uncertainty about
the locality and the identity of the animal.
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