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
13. _Near Saginaw, Saginaw County._—Dr. A. C. Lane has reported (Ann.
Rep. Geol. Surv. Michigan for 1901, p. 252) that he had found in the
possession of farmers in Tittabawassee Township, Saginaw County, parts
of a tusk, said to have come from a ditch near the course of the Parker
drain, about 0.25 mile north of the south line of section 20, township
13 north, range 3 east, according to Mr. D. E. Williamson, of Saginaw.
Dr. Lane also reported remains of a mastodon, including the lower jaw,
found in digging a tile ditch on the “Willis farm.”
14. See page 85.
15. _Saginaw County._—In October 1910, Mr. Ralph McQuiston sent to the
writer photographs of three mastodon teeth found on a farm about 8 miles
east of north of Elsie, Clinton County. He has since given this locality
as being in the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 4,
township 9 north, range 1 east. According to Leverett and Taylor’s
glacial map of Michigan, this would be about 6 miles within the old Lake
Warren beach-line and in sandy deposits laid down in water. The teeth
were found at a depth of 3 feet. It may be that the animal died at that
spot after the waters of Lake Warren had retired. If so, it would be
interesting to determine the origin of the materials which covered the
mastodon. On the other hand, the mastodon remains were possibly
deposited there after the withdrawal of Lake Wayne and that the
overlying materials were laid down by the water of Lake Warren, for this
lake appears to have stood at a higher level than its predecessor. If
the latter supposition is correct, mastodons could live not far away
from the glacial front.
Further correspondence with Mr. McQuiston makes it appear improbable
that the overlying materials were deposited by lake waters. Professor
Leverett suggests that the animal had died in an old swale and had
afterwards been buried under fine material washed in from the somewhat
higher ground in the neighborhood. In that case the mastodon may have
lived at any time after the lake waters had retired from the locality.
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