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 Haymond, another skeleton was found about 3.5 miles
northeast of Brookville, in a piece of marshy ground which the owner was
ditching. This discovery must have been made either on the outer
(Hartwell) moraine of the Wisconsin glacier or along East Honnas Creek,
where it breaks through the moraine. In either case, the animal must
have been buried there after the retirement of the ice from that
moraine.
12. _Dearborn County._—In 1872 (3d and 4th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv.
Indiana, p. 402), Professor R. B. Warder mentioned briefly that some
remains of mastodon had been met with in this county. A part of a large
pelvis was found at a salt spring on Tanner’s Creek, below Guilford.
This may have belonged to either a mastodon or an elephant. A mastodon’s
tooth is said to have been found on high ground on George Randall’s
farm, 5 miles west of southwest of Aurora, lying on a stratum of blue
clay 8 or 9 feet below the surface. This region is occupied by Illinoian
drift and the mastodon probably lived there at some time after the
Illinoian stage and before the Wisconsin. However, we can not be certain
that the animal was not a mammoth, for no description was given of the
tooth and it has almost certainly been destroyed.
According to L. C. Ward’s report on the soils of Dearborn County (32d
Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 232), this immediate region is
occupied by what he calls limestone upland soil, which has resulted from
the decay of Silurian limestones and shales. Nothing is said about
Illinoian drift there. Nevertheless, by some means, this proboscidean
was buried there during the Pleistocene period.
Warder mentioned other remains of proboscideans reported from Ohio
County, adjoining Dearborn on the south, a piece of a tusk found near
Patriot, a tusk on Laughery Creek above Hartford, and a tooth at Rising
Sun, in the river bank; but these may have belonged to elephants. To an
elephant may have belonged the tusks which Warder reported as having
been found in the river bottom 5 miles below Vevay, in Switzerland
County.
54. _Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County._—Mr. M. G. Mock, of Houston, Texas,
formerly of Muncie, Indiana, a careful collector of mastodon and
elephant teeth, in a letter informed the writer that in August 1887 a
large mastodon tooth was found near Lawrenceburg, but the exact locality
was not given.
20. _Charleston, Clark County._—In the Fifth Annual Report of the
Geological Survey of Indiana, 1874, page 176, Mr. William W. Borden
reported the discovery of a skeleton of a mastodon on tract 55 of the
“Illinois Grant,” about 2 miles southwest of Charleston Landing and
about the same distance from the Ohio River. A part of the bones was
sent to the old Louisville Museum; the others were, in 1874, in the
possession of Mr. J. Coons, one of the finders. Probably the bones have
long been lost or destroyed. According to Borden, they were found in a
sand-bank. This region is occupied by Illinoian drift.
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