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
The whole of Kane County lies between or is covered by the Bloomington
and Marseilles moraines, and the mastodons found there must have lived
after the retirement of the ice which produced those moraines.
26. _Glencoe, Cook County._—In Netta C. Anderson’s list, on page 9,
Professor James G. Needham, of Lake Forest University, reported that a
fragment of a mastodon’s tooth had been dug up while a ditch in glacial
drift was being made.
Glencoe is situated on the eastern till ridge, as described by Leverett
(Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv., XXXVIII, p. 381), the one nearest the
western shore of Lake Michigan. If the tooth mentioned really occurred
in undisturbed drift, it is possible that it was redeposited from some
earlier interglacial deposit.
In 1891, W. K. Higley (Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., vol. II, pt. 1, p. XV)
reported the finding of some bones of a mastodon, about 6 years
previously, on the south side of Wicker Park, near Milwaukee Avenue,
Evanston. The bones were in a layer of fine sand in which were trunks of
oak trees. The depth was 13 feet. The remark was made that the level
marked the upper or late limit of the mastodon.
27. See page 105.
WISCONSIN.
(Map 5.)
1. _Dover, Racine County._—In the Milwaukee Public Museum is a tusk,
identified as that of a mastodon, exhumed from a peat-bog at Dover, in
1878. Both tusks and some fragments of a scapula, some ribs, and
vertebræ were found, but apparently no teeth. Only one tusk was saved; 4
feet 8 inches long and moderately curved, the middle of the concave
surface being about 6 inches below a line joining the base and the tip
of the tusk.
Dover is situated near the southern border of Racine County, in the
southwestern corner of township 3 north, range 20 east. It is,
therefore, within the great composite moraine which runs along the
western side of Lake Michigan. According to Alden’s map (Prof. Paper
106, U. S. Geol. Surv., plate III) the town is on a tract covered by
ground moraine of the Lake Michigan glacier.
2. _Waukesha, Waukesha County._—In the Milwaukee Public Museum is a
slightly worn upper hindermost molar of a mastodon, No. 3867, labeled as
having been found at Waukesha. There is no other history. The geological
age is probably practically the same as that of the tooth found at
Dover, Late Wisconsin.
3. _Madison, Dane County._—The records for mastodons at Madison are not
very satisfactory.
Professor Eliot Blackwelder informs the writer that there is in the
collection at the State University of Wisconsin a large vertebra,
supposed to be that of a mastodon, brought up out of Lake Monona, in
1906.
Professor C. A. Davis informed the author that in 1908 he visited the
fill in one of the city parks made by pumping mud from Lake Monona and
found fragments of ivory and parts of proboscidean bones. It is possible
that these fragments belonged to an elephant.
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