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
38. _Laketon, Wabash County._—Elrod and Benedict state (17th Ann. Rep.
Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 240) that in 1872 a nearly complete skeleton of
a mastodon was found about 2 miles west of this place, in digging a
ditch at the roadside. The exact location is in section 8, township 29
north, range 6 east, near the bank of Silver Creek. The political name
of the township is Pleasant. This would be on the southern border of the
great moraine already mentioned as running northeastward and
southwestward, north of Eel River. After some litigation the skeleton
was put on exhibition at Fort Wayne.
In throwing up an embankment for a bridge across Silver Creek, workmen
found in the same township, as reported by Elrod and Benedict, bones of
_Elephas primigenius_. They were under 5 feet of muck.
39. _North Manchester, Wabash County._—Elrod and Benedict, as cited
above, reported that a jawbone with two teeth in it had been found on
the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 1, township
29, range 7 east. This is about 3 miles east of North Manchester. The
description given of these teeth shows that the jaw was that of a
mastodon. It was found beneath 2.5 feet of solid blue clay. According to
Leverett’s map, the locality is not far west of the outer border of the
Mississinawa moraine.
40. _Lagrange, Lagrange County._—Professor Donaldson Bodine, now
deceased, formerly of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, informed
the writer that there are in Wabash College some teeth and other parts
of a mastodon, which were found in 1910 in some dredging operations near
Lagrange.
H. Pohlig (Bull. Soc. Belge Géol., etc., vol. XXVI, 1912, p. 187)
described a lower jaw, found somewhere about Lagrange, which he referred
to _Tetracaulodon ohioticum_. It contained a small tusk 230 mm. long and
40 mm. in diameter. There was present also an alveolus for the other
tusk. He accepts the genus _Tetracaulodon_ for mastodons “a quatre
défenses permanentes sans émail représenté par le _Mastodon ohioticum_.”
Individuals without lower tusks are regarded by him as females.
In Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York, there is,
or was, a lower jaw of a mastodon from Lagrange County.
The writer has received a photograph showing the right fore-leg, two
ribs, two tusks, and a lower jaw of a mastodon found in 1884, in a
swamp, 4 miles northwest of Lagrange. The remains were embedded in a
clayey marl deposit, at a depth of from 4 to 10 feet. They are said to
have been exhumed by Dr. H. M. Betts. The hindermost lower molar shows
five crests and a heel. On the right side is a small lower tusk.
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