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
Dr. W. D. Matthew informs the writer that on cleaning up the materials
there proved to be present at least four individuals. One was
represented by a very complete skull with portions of the tusks. There
was another skull; also two lower jaws which appeared not to belong to
either of the skulls. From the shortness and the diameter of the tusks
it is believed that all the individuals were females. Besides the skulls
there were many bones belonging to the trunk and the limbs.
36. _Macy, Miami County._—Near this place was found the fine skeleton of
a mastodon which is mounted and on exhibition in the Public Museum at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A figure of this has been published by the writer
(36th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 659).
This skeleton was found, according to Mr. H. L. Ward, director of the
museum mentioned, in 1907, in the northwest quarter of section 29,
township 29, range 4 east, between Macy and Deedsville. This locality is
on the great moraine which lies north of Eel River and was produced by
the ice fronts of the Michigan, the Saginaw, and the Lake Erie lobes.
According to a sketch and some notes furnished to Mr. Ward by Mr. C. F.
Fite, who secured the skeleton, it was lying at the lower end of an
8–shaped area of low muck land surrounded by rather high sandy land. The
skeleton was buried at a depth of 4 or 5 feet, and the surface was miry
and covered with water. Mr. Fite concluded from the position of the
bones that the animal had become mired. He says in a letter to the
present writer that the contents of the stomach had been preserved, but
on exposure to the air became powdery like ashes.
Mr. Fite writes that he took up portions of another mastodon in the
southwest quarter of section 26, township 29 north, range 5 east (Perry
Township), and that he has the lower jaw and teeth. This animal was
found in an old pond which had a growth of buttonwood. The bones were in
a blue clay, itself overlain by a rich black soil.
Still another mastodon is reported by Mr. Fite from this region. This
was found in the fall of 1915, in the northwest quarter of section 12,
township 29 north, range 3 east. The remains were found at a depth of 4
feet and were in a pretty fair state of preservation, except the skull.
The animal had been a large one.
37. _Peru, Miami County._—In the collection of Yale University is a
lower left last molar, No. 11689, labeled as having come from Peru, but
there is no other information. Peru is on the Wabash River, a few miles
south of Denver.
51. _Jackson Township, Miami County._—Mr. Fite reports having found
another mastodon in the southeast quarter of section 11, Jackson
Township, Miami County (T. 25 N., R. 5 E.). This would be not far from
Pipe Creek, between Somerset and Amboy, and some miles outside of the
Mississinawa moraine. The writer has seen these bones, mostly vertebræ,
and agrees with the identification.
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