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
2. _Parkersburg, Wood County._—In 1902 the present writer received from
Mr. J. W. Miller, of the High School of Williamstown, West Virginia, a
letter inclosing photographs of a mastodon tooth, found on Neal Island,
3 miles above Parkersburg. The tooth appears to be the upper left second
molar and is furnished with all of its roots. The writer does not know
under what conditions the tooth was found. Its perfect state of
preservation shows that it could not have been carried far by the
stream. For a discussion of the Pleistocene of some parts of West
Virginia the reader may consult the paragraphs on pages 354–355.
NORTH CAROLINA.
(Maps 5, 39.)
1. _New Hanover County._—Under this number must be mentioned that a
tooth of _Mammut americanum_ has been found about 10 miles below
Wilmington, near the Fort Fisher road. This tooth is in the possession
of Captain E. D. Williams, of Wilmington.
2. _Pender County._—Professor H. H. Brimley, of the State Museum at
Raleigh, North Carolina, has informed the writer that there are in that
museum some remains of mastodon from Pender County; but nothing more is
known to the present writer about the nature of these remains or about
the locality where they were found.
3. _Duplin County._—From the same source it is learned that there are in
the collection at Raleigh teeth of mastodon which had been found in
Duplin County.
4. _Goldsboro, Wayne County._—In the State Museum at Raleigh is a left
ramus of a mastodon, collected near Goldsboro. The writer has examined
this important specimen and has also received a photograph of it, sent
by Professor H. H. Brimley. This is evidently the jaw described by Leidy
(Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, p. 113) from photographs received
from Professor W. C. Kerr, then State geologist of North Carolina. This
jaw was recorded as having been obtained from gravel overlying Miocene
marl, near Goldsboro.
This specimen presents the peculiarity of having two tusks at the front
of the symphysis. The diameter of these is 45 mm. How long they were
originally can not be determined. The form of this jaw and presence of
two large incisor tusks indicates that this specimen belongs to _Mammut
progenium_. The front molar present, M_{2}, has a length of 122 mm. and
a width of 88 mm. Leidy regarded this jaw as having belonged to a male
animal. Professor E. Emmons (Geol. Surv. North Carolina, 1858, p. 199)
mentions that a large number of bones had been found in a marl pit near
Goldsboro.
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