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
4. _Orange County, west of Orleans._—The writer has given an account
(36th Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 710) of mastodon remains found here,
on the farm of Mr. Marion F. Mathers, apparently near the line between
the townships of ranges 1 and 2 west and 3 north, and about 2 miles
south of the line between Orange and Lawrence Counties. The remains
appear to have been found in a valley and about 4.5 feet below the
surface. Being found thus in an unglaciated region, they might have been
deposited at any time during the Pleistocene.
5. _Sparksville, Jackson County._—Some years ago teeth and ribs of a
mastodon were found on the bank of White River, at Sparksville. The
valley here is filled with outwash from the Wisconsin drift, but there
is possibly some outwash from the Illinoian.
6. _Jackson County, 7 miles west of Tampico._—(See 36th Ann. Rep. State
Geologist of Indiana, vol. XXXVI, p. 706.) A mastodon tooth was reported
found on the bank of Judah Creek, a branch of Mill Creek, in section 9,
township 4 north, range 4 east, not far from Muscatatuk River. This is
at some distance outside of the border of the Illinoian drift. Along
Mill Creek are alluvial deposits, but nearby is Chestnut ridge of
probably Wisconsin age (32d Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 192).
7. _New Albany, Floyd County._—In the Fifth Annual Report of the
Geological Survey of Indiana, page 176, Mr. William W. Borden stated
that mastodon remains had been frequently found on the bank of the Ohio
River, at New Albany. As too often, there are lacking details as to
localities and levels. It is quite probable that there is some outwash
at this place from the Illinoian drift, and there is much from the
Wisconsin.
MASTODONS FOUND WITHIN AREA COVERED BY ILLINOIAN DRIFT.
8. _Princeton, Gibson County._—In 1910, three teeth of a mastodon were
found in this village, at a depth of 6 feet, in a sewer which was being
constructed in West Chestnut street. This region is covered by Illinoian
drift. According to Leverett’s map (Monogr. LIII, 1914), Princeton is
situated on Illinoian ground moraine covered by loess. Dr. E. W. Shaw,
of the U. S. Geological Survey, who is familiar with the region in
question, informs the writer that these teeth were almost certainly
found in Iowan loess, deposited at some time between the Illinoian and
the Wisconsin glacial stages.
52. _Vincennes, Knox County._—At the State University of Colorado, at
Boulder, there is an atlas of a mastodon which was taken there by
Professor M. M. Ellis, formerly of Vincennes, who stated that this, with
other bones, had been found at Vincennes, associated with a skull of a
fossil bison.
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