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
MARYLAND.
(Map 5.)
1. _St. Mary’s City, St. Mary’s County._—The U. S. National Museum (No.
200) contains a fine upper left hindermost molar of _Mammut americanum_,
labeled as presented by Mr. J. Varden and as found many years ago in a
marl-bed at or near the town named. It was probably met in digging for
Miocene marl, but was doubtless inclosed in overlying Pleistocene
materials. According to Shattuck’s Pleistocene map of Maryland
(Pleistocene volume, plate I), St. Mary’s City is situated on the
Wicomico terrace; but because of absence of exact information whether
the tooth was in the body of this deposit, or below it, or possibly in
later materials above the Wicomico, its exact age can not be determined.
Teeth from the locality were mentioned by Lucas on page 162 of the
volume just cited. The geology of the county is described in a special
volume of the Maryland Survey, 1907.
2. _St. Clements, St. Mary’s County._—The U. S. National Museum contains
a lower right hindermost molar, found long ago, apparently 1837, and
presented by A. McWilliams. It is recorded as having been discovered in
digging a mill-race at or above St. Clements. This race must quite
certainly have been located along St. Clements Creek. The place is
situated in the Wicomico plain; but possibly Talbot deposits extended up
the creek farther than mapped.
3. _Towson, Baltimore County._—Professor F. A. Lucas (Maryland Pliocene,
Pleistocene vol., p. 163) stated that the collection of the Maryland
Geological Survey contains a fine upper last molar of a mastodon found
on the Ridgeley estate, at Hampton, near Towson, about 10 miles north of
Baltimore. At present one can not determine the time during the
Pleistocene when this tooth was part of a living creature.
4. _Lane’s Creek?, Washington County._—The writer received, in 1912, a
letter from Professor A. F. Bechdolt, of Bellingham, State of
Washington, in which he stated that somewhat more than 37 years before,
while teaching school in Washington County, Maryland, he saw the remains
of a skull of a mastodon which some negroes had unearthed in making a
mill-race, but they had broken it in pieces with sledgehammers.
Professor Bechdolt recollected plainly the “mammillary face” of the
tooth. The locality is described as being near the Pennsylvania line,
south and somewhat west of Mercersberg, Pennsylvania, among the
foot-hills of North Mountain, at a place locally known as “The Corner.”
It appears probable that the locality was somewhere along Lane’s Creek.
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