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
23. _Losantville, Randolph County._—Losantville is, according to
Leverett (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv. LIII, plate VI), on the Bloomington
moraine of the Wisconsin. As indicated on the map, the drift is covered
with silt formed in local ice-border pools. Hence the mastodon in
question left his bones in a depression on the top of the Wisconsin
drift-sheet, and later they were covered by a deposit of peat.
In Nautilus, volume IV, page 131, Elwood Pleas, of Dunreith, Indiana,
gave a list of six species of mollusks found associated with the
mastodon. All are yet living.
Dr. A. J. Phinney (Twelfth Ann. Rep. Ind. Geol. Surv., p. 181) stated
that mastodon bones had been met in this county, but no details were
furnished.
24. _Dalton, Wayne County._—In the Earlham College collection there is a
lower jaw found in Nettle Creek, near Dalton. It contains the last two
molars. The last one has five crests and a talon. The front of the
symphysis is rough, but there are no alveoles for tusks. Dalton is in
the northwestern corner of the county and on the southern border of the
Shelbyville moraine, where this joins the Bloomington moraine.
25. _Jacksonburg, Wayne County._—Dr. John T. Plummer (Amer. Jour. Sci.,
ser. I, vol. XLIV, 1843, p. 302) stated that he had obtained near
Jacksonburg, 18 miles west of Richmond, a tooth. It had four
cross-ridges and was so well preserved that a dentist attempted to make
artificial human teeth from it. According to Leverett’s map, the tooth
was probably on the surface of Wisconsin drift. It could not, therefore,
have lived until after the Shelbyville moraine had been cleared of ice.
26. _Richmond, Wayne County._—In the twelfth volume of the American
Geologist, page 73, Professor Joseph Moore, then of Earlham College,
stated that some sound teeth and decayed bones of a mastodon had been
found 2 miles east of Richmond, in scooping out a fish-pond. A label on
a lower last molar states that the remains were found on the Floyd farm.
With them were found a fragment of an incisor of _Castoroides_.
According to Leverett (Monogr. LIII, plate VI), the locality would be
outside of the Bloomington moraine of the Wisconsin drift.
MASTODONS FOUND WITHIN THE MISSISSINAWA MORAINE.
27. _Penn Township, Jay County._—Mr. David McCaslin (12th Ann. Rep.
Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 169) stated that various remains of mastodon had
been found in Jay County. He mentioned in particular fragments found in
Penn Township (township 24 north, range 8 east) and which seemed to
indicate the presence of an entire skeleton. It is, however, possible
that this skeleton was that of an elephant. The Salamonie moraine passes
diagonally through this township.
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