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
6. _Hot Springs, Bath County._—In the U. S. National Museum is a part of
an upper left second true molar, recorded as having been found about a
mile from the Hot Springs Hotel. The tooth is silicified. It was
presented by Mr. J. F. McAllister. Hot Springs is at the head of Wilson
Creek, a tributary of Jackson River. In the folio of Monterey Quadrangle
coming down nearly to Hot Springs, no mention is made of any
Pleistocene; but the presence of occasional deposits of soils along some
of the streams is recorded. Evidently some of these deposits were laid
down in Pleistocene times.
7. _Edom, Rockingham County._—The American Geologist in 1891 (vol. VII,
p. 335), contains an account of the finding at this place of bones of
what was called a mammoth, but which was more probably a mastodon. It
was said to have been discovered on the land of a Mr. Frank. The
information was furnished by Dr. Zirkle, who stated that a nearly
complete skull had been found.
In the U. S. National Museum is the symphysis of the lower jaw of a
mastodon, recorded only as having been found in Virginia. The specimen
(No. 210) would not be worth mentioning were it not that it presents in
front two sockets for tusks of considerable size. The bases of the tusks
are retained at the bottom of the sockets. The left socket has a
diameter of about 35 mm.; the other is slightly smaller. From the
outside of one socket to the outside of the other is 94 mm. The front of
the symphysis is damaged, so that its length can not be determined. Its
lower face is quite flat. The height of the jaw at the front of the
tooth which was present is about 150 mm. It seems to the writer that
this jaw belonged to the species _Mammut progenium_.
WEST VIRGINIA.
(Map 5.)
1. _Stewartstown, Monongalia County._—Dr. G. F. Wright, in his “Ice Age
in Northern America,” fifth edition, page 378, wrote that Dr. I. C.
White had reported (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 3, vol. XXXIV, pp. 378–379)
the finding of a tooth of a mastodon at this place; but in the article
quoted nothing is said about a mastodon. Evidently White published this
article elsewhere.
The tooth is said to have been dug up on the fifth and highest terrace
along Monongahela River. In White’s article, page 378, it is stated that
in the region of Morgantown the high-terrace deposits are about 275 feet
above low-water in the Monongahela and 1,065 feet above tide. It is
probable that the mastodon lived there during the early Pleistocene.
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