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
According to Leverett and Taylor’s map, this mastodon was buried within
the borders of glacial Lake Lundy, just outside of that of Lake Rouge, a
contemporary of Lake Algonquin. On page 442 of Leverett and Taylor’s
monograph it is stated that the altitude of the beach of Rouge Lake is
589 feet. On the map just referred to the 600–foot contour-line runs at
a considerable distance west of the locality of the mastodon find. The
latter appears, then, to have been somewhere between the altitude of 589
and 600 feet above sea-level, without considering the depth the skeleton
may have lain below the surface. The altitude of Lake Erie is 573 feet.
It is evident that the lake had attained nearly, if not quite, its
present level when this mastodon lived.
Dr. E. C. Case, who superintended the excavation of this specimen,
informed the writer that the bones were found 4 feet from the surface.
23. See page 88.
24. _Petersburg, Monroe County._—Alexander Winchell (Amer. Jour. Sci.,
vol. XXXVIII, 1864, p. 224) reported mastodon remains from this place.
The town is in township 7 south, range 6 east. According to Leverett and
Taylor’s map, Petersburg is within the beach which marks the old glacial
Lake Warren. Probably, therefore, this mastodon lived after the
retirement of this lake, unless it had lived during the time of Lake
Wayne and been covered over by the deposits of Lake Warren when the
waters of the latter made their advance on the land. The time of the
mastodon was more probably after both lakes had ceased to exist.
23. _Saline, Washtenaw County._—Mr. N. A. Wood, of the University of
Michigan, informed the writer that he had seen some mastodon remains
which had been found here in 1880. No exact statements were given
regarding the place. Saline is very close to the beach of old Lake
Maumee, where this beach is crossed by Saline River and on the Defiance
moraine.
25. See page 83.
26. _Seven miles southeast of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County._—In 1908
(Folio 155, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 9), Russell and Leverett stated that
remains of a mastodon had been found a few years previously on the farm
of Albert Darling, about 7 miles southeast of Ypsilanti, where laborers
were digging a ditch across a swampy field. The lower jaw with molar
teeth in place, the left tusk, teeth of the upper jaw, portions of the
cranium, some vertebræ and ribs, and some of the larger bones of the
limbs were found. With considerable restoration these parts were mounted
and placed in the museum of Michigan University. The locality must be
not far away from Huron River and within the beach of old Arkona Lake, a
predecessor of the present Lake Erie.
27. See page 81.
INDIANA.
(Maps 5, 9.)
MASTODONS FOUND IN THE UNGLACIATED REGION.
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