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 R. W. Ellis’s soil survey of this region (32d Ann. Rep.
Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 245, map), this area is occupied by what is
called New Washington clay loam. This is regarded as the residual soil
of the disintegrated limestone of the Jeffersonville and Niagara
formations. Nothing is said about any glacial drift here, but the sand
of the sand-pit mentioned must have been deposited during the
Pleistocene.
MASTODONS FOUND BETWEEN THE SHELBYVILLE AND THE BLOOMINGTON MORAINES.
13. _Greencastle, Putnam County._—The State collection at Indianapolis
contains a last molar of a mastodon found somewhere near Greencastle. It
is not known whether it was found on Wisconsin drift or on Illinoian, or
in Wisconsin outwash along Eel River.
50. _Greensburg, Decatur County._—From Dr. W. D. Matthew, American
Museum Natural History, New York City, the writer has received
information, accompanied by drawings, that teeth and part of the jaw of
a mastodon were found near Greensburg, by Mr. Roscoe Humphrey. The
drawings show two teeth, one having a length of 102 mm., the other of
135 mm. Mr. Humphrey states that the jaw and the teeth were found in a
branch of Sand Creek, about 4.5 miles southeast of Greensburg. This is
evidently on the Shelbyville moraine.
14. _Danville, Hendricks County._—The collection of the State Museum at
Indianapolis contains a lower second true molar labeled as having been
found near Danville. The specimen is credited to Dr. Vinnage. As this
region is covered by Wisconsin drift, it is probable that the animal
lived after the Wisconsin ice had retired.
15. _Attica, Fountain County._—Mr. J. E. Walker, of Attica, Indiana, has
informed the writer that about October 1, 1895, a mastodon jaw was found
near Newtown, in that county. Mr. Charles B. McKinney, of Newtown, wrote
that the jaw was discovered in the bank of Coal Creek, about 4 rods from
where the creek crosses into Montgomery County, in the northeast quarter
of section 9, township 20 north, range 6 west. The bank rose 3 feet
above the bed of the creek and was composed of a black loam; higher
ground is found about 20 rods away. This jaw must have been buried
originally where it was found or nearby and after the ice which formed
the Champaign moraine had withdrawn further north. It may have been long
after this withdrawal. The description of the jaw and teeth leaves no
doubt as to the correct identification of the animal.
Former State Geologist John Collett, in 1880 (2nd Rep. Bur. Stat. Geol.
Indiana, p. 386), stated that in digging a canal a few miles north of
Covington a skeleton of a mastodon had been found embedded in wet peat.
Collett reported that the bones yet contained their marrow. The identity
of the species and the details as to location and depths are not given.
Doubtless the age of the animal was Late Wisconsin.
MASTODONS FOUND NORTH OF THE BLOOMINGTON MORAINIC SYSTEM AND SOUTH OF
THE WABASH RIVER AND THE MISSISSINAWA MORAINE.
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