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
It has not been practicable to arrange the figures on the map of
mastodons in Florida in an orderly manner. Below, the localities are
described by beginning at the northern end of the State and ending at
the southern end.
1. _Marianna, Jackson County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No. 324) is
a tooth of _Mammut americanum_, recorded as having been sent to the
National Institute, September 25, 1847, by Walter Yonge, from Marianna.
No additional information has been preserved. It is a large upper right
last molar, with 5 cross-crests, a hinder talon, and nearly complete
roots. Marianna is situated on Chipola River.
12. _Little River, Gadsden County._—Dr. E. H. Sellards (8th Ann. Rep.
Florida Geol. Surv., 1916, p. 104) reported that a tooth of _Mammut
americanum_ had been obtained from Little River.
2. _Fort White, Columbia County._—Dr. E. H. Sellards reported to the
writer the discovery of a tooth of _Mammut americanum_ at a point 3
miles northwest of Fort White. No details have been received. The town
is on Santa Fe River.
3. _Citra, Marion County._—In Ward’s Natural History Establishment, at
Rochester, New York, the writer saw in January 1914, 2 cross-crests of a
probably hindermost upper molar of _Mammut americanum_. There had been
present a large pulp-cavity. Nothing definite about the history of the
specimen could be obtained, except that it had been found at Citra.
15. _Neals, Alachua County._—From this locality Sellards (5th Ann. Rep.
Florida Geol. Surv., p. 58) reported the discovery of a mastodon,
probably _Gomphotherium floridanum_. Associated with this species was an
undetermined species of _Hipparion_. At the same place has been found
_Tapirus terrestris?_ On his plates IV and V of the same volume,
Sellards has figured teeth belonging to two undetermined species of
mastodons. All of these fossils came from the phosphate deposits at
Neals.
16. _Archer, Alachua County._—Dr. Joseph Leidy (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., 1886, p. 11) reported that Dr. W. H. Dall had discovered at
Archer remains of a mastodon to which Leidy gave the name _Mastodon
floridanus_. It is here referred to the genus _Gomphotherium_. It was
associated in the Alachua clays with a species of _Hipparion_, three
species of _Procamelus_, and a rhinoceros; also an astragalus of
_Megatherium_. All of these, except the last, are usually referred to
the Lower Pliocene or the Upper Miocene. The writer believes that they
belong to the lowest Pleistocene, the Nebraskan.
17. _Williston, Levy County._—Leidy (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1887,
p. 309) reported the finding of several species of fossil vertebrates in
the Mixon bone-bed, at or near Williston. The species were
_Gomphotherium floridanum_, _Hipparion plicatile_, _Procamelus major_,
and _Teleoceras proterus_. These were found in the Alachua clays at
depths from 2.5 to 6 feet. In Dall’s list of 1892 (Bull. U. S. Geol.
Surv. No. 84, p. 129) _Hipparion ingenuum_ is included.
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