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
33. _Denham, Pulaski County._—In 1915 the U. S. National Museum secured
a large part of the skeleton of a mastodon found about 2 miles west of
Denham. The locality is described to the writer by Mr. W. D. Pattison,
of Winamac, as being on the half-section line between the southeast
quarter of the northwest quarter and the northeast quarter of the
southwest quarter of section 9, township 31 north, range 3 west. This
would be not far west from the center of the section. The skeleton was
thrown out by the shovel of the ditching machine, but most of the bones,
including the skull, were obtained in quite good condition. They were
found at a depth of about 9 feet, in a marly deposit, itself overlain by
sandy materials.
On consulting Leverett’s glacial map of Indiana it is seen that this
skeleton was found in a marshy tract, in which Monon River rises. It is
represented by Leverett as a ground moraine plain, surrounded by plains
covered by sand and displaying sand dunes. It forms a part of what has
been called Kankakee Lake, but which, as Leverett says, may have been in
late Pleistocene times not greatly unlike what it has been within Recent
times. It must have been well along in the afternoon of the Wisconsin
stage when this mastodon tempted the insecure footing of these swamps.
This skeleton has been mounted and is now on exhibition at the U. S.
National Museum.
34. _Rich Grove Township, Pulaski County._—Mr. J. W. Gidley, of the
National Museum, and Mr. F. M. Williams, of Winamac, Indiana, in 1915,
saw some mastodon bones which had been found here. No details have been
reported.
49. _Indian Creek Township, Pulaski County._—From Dr. E. S. Riggs, of
Field Museum of Natural History, it has been learned that in June 1914,
about half of the skeleton of a mastodon was found on the farm of Mr.
William Battie, 5 miles west of Oak, Pulaski County. This would be in
township 29 north, range 2 west. The skeleton was encountered by
ditchers at a depth of 3 feet, in black loam. It was not secured for the
Field Museum of Natural History.
35. _Royal Center, Cass County._—Mr. Gidley and Mr. Williams, as
mentioned under No. 34, saw also some mastodon remains which were from
about 2 miles west of Royal Center.
48. _Fulton, Fulton County._—The American Museum of Natural History, New
York, contains several mastodon bones secured by Mr. Barnum Brown in
1915, but which had been found by Mr. Arthur Fry, in July 1913. These
remains were met with in excavating for abutments for a bridge and had
been thrown out of a drainage ditch. The bones were disassociated and
scattered over a considerable area. They were all in black muck
overlying compact quicksand and about 4 feet below the black loam
surface soil. From Mr. Fry it is learned that the locality is 2 miles
southeast of Fulton. This is in township 29 north, range 2 east, and
quite certainly in section 36. Mr. Fry wrote that in digging up these
bones logs were found that had been gnawed by beavers.
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