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
30. _Ashley, Steuben County._—The American Museum of Natural History,
New York, contains the fine skull of a mastodon, found in Steuben
Township not far from Ashley. The finder of the skull, Mr. Walter F.
Deller, of Ashley, informed the writer that it was discovered in a swamp
which was being drained, about 5 feet from the surface. He states that
the bones lay in a marl, itself overlain by muck, and on top of all some
soil which had been washed in. So far as can be determined, the animal
was buried between the Mississinawa and the Salamonie moraines. With the
skull were found other parts of the skeleton, which shows that the
remains were in their original place of burial.
MASTODONS FOUND OUTSIDE OF MISSISSINAWA MORAINE AND BETWEEN WABASH AND
KANKAKEE RIVERS.
31. _Beaver Lake, Newton County._—In 1870 (Geol. Surv. Illinois, vol.
IV, p. 229), Frank H. Bradley reported that in draining Beaver Lake, in
Newton County, mastodon remains had been found, in company with
_Boötherium_. No details were furnished, and it is not known what was
done with the specimens. It is probable that the musk-ox belonged to the
species _Symbos cavifrons_. It occurs over the country much more
abundantly than any other musk-ox.
Beaver Lake has disappeared from the maps, but it is shown on the
geological map of Indiana, published in the Eighteenth Annual Report of
the Geological Survey of Indiana. The lake occupied a part of the
present township of McClellan (township 30 north, range 9 west).
Doubtless this lake existed ever since the retirement of the ice from
that region. The mastodon was probably found in making the ditch from
the lake in a northwesterly direction into the Kankakee River.
32. _Jasper County._—John Collett, at that time State geologist,
reported in 1882 (12th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 73) that
remains of a mastodon had been found in this county, but no particulars
were furnished. He stated that remains of this species, as well as those
of the mammoth, were buried in deposits of peat. A portion of the county
is occupied by the Marseilles morainic system, the remainder by the
Kankakee marsh, perhaps largely a lake during the latter part of the
Wisconsin stage. On the maps the number 32 is placed arbitrarily.
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