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
19. _Fairmount Township, Grant County._—In 1883, A. J. Phinney, M. D.,
in describing the geology of Grant County (13th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv.
Indiana, p. 143), reported that some years previously the tooth of a
mastodon was found in one of the marshes south of the lake in Fairmount
Township, number 23 north, range 8 east. In another part of the report
it is stated that the lake was in section 14. It covered at the time of
writing about 10 acres, but had formerly covered about 30 acres. The
drainage is now north into the Mississinawa River; but, before the
Wisconsin ice had withdrawn to where the Mississinawa moraine now is,
the drainage was toward the south into White River. At some time after
the retirement of the ice from this region it became occupied by
mastodons, elephants, giant beavers, and doubtless many other species of
animals.
For 20 see page 91.
21. _Muncie, Delaware County._—A. J. Phinney, in 1882 (11th Ann. Rep.
Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 131), reported that a mastodon tooth was found
4.5 miles west of Muncie, on the farm of Edward McKinley. No details as
to depth or kind of soil were given. The tooth is said to have measured
4 by 5.5 inches, with a depth of 7 inches. Unless the roots were present
and large it seems not unlikely that the tooth was that of an elephant.
Phinney did not say that he saw the tooth. He reported other supposed
mastodon remains which had been found in this county, but there is no
assurance that they were correctly identified. Whatever proboscideans
they were, they lived after the Wisconsin ice had retreated from that
region.
Mr. M. G. Mock, of Houston, Texas, formerly of Muncie, Indiana, has been
interested in making collections of fossils and curiosities. He has kept
a note-book of his finds and has illustrated it with sketches. He has a
lower right last mastodon molar which was found near Muncie. It is 8.5
inches long, and has 4 crests and 5 roots.
He reports having seen a mastodon tooth with 3 crests, which was found
June 1887, about 1.75 miles east of Muncie, at the mouth of Hog Creek.
Two teeth, of which Mr. Mock still owns one, were found August 8, 1894,
2.5 miles south of Muncie, in a ditch near Buck Creek, on the farm owned
by Oliver McConnell.
53. _Royerton, Delaware County._—Mr. M. G. Mock, above referred to,
showed the writer a drawing of a mastodon tooth which was found May 24,
1890, near Royerton, 6 miles north of Muncie. With this were two other
teeth; one 7 inches long and weighed nearly 4 pounds. These were
discovered in excavating tile clay at a depth of about 3.5 feet.
22. _Henry County._—In the collection of Princeton University are two
lower true molars, apparently the first of each side. The length of each
is 95 mm. They are labeled as having come from Henry County, Indiana,
but there is nothing to indicate from what part of the county.
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