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
18. _Juliette, Marion County._—Sellards, in 1913 (5th Ann. Rep. Florida
Geol. Surv., p. 58), stated that _Gomphotherium floridanum_ had been
found in hard phosphate in a mine at this place. As in other such cases,
he referred the species to the Upper Miocene or the Lower Pliocene.
5. _Dunnellon, Marion County._—In the collection of the Florida
Geological Survey is a fragment of a molar of _Mammut americanum_ which
was dredged up from Withlacoochee River during operations by the
Schilman and Bene Phosphate Company. It was presented by John D.
Robertson.
In the possession of Mr. J. D. Robertson of Ocala, Florida, is a part of
a skull of _Mammut americanum_, reported by him to have been found in
the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 1, township 17
south, range 19 east. This would be about 6 miles east of Dunnellon and
not far from Withlacoochee River.
In the region about Dunnellon the mastodon _Gomphotherium floridanum_
has been collected. For the list of species found at Dunnellon and in
Withlacoochee River the reader may consult page 376.
19. _Near San Pablo Beach, Duval County._—From station 120, on the
Inland Waterway, near San Pablo Beach, Sellards (8th Ann. Rep. Florida
Geol. Surv., p. 106) reported the discovery of a tooth of _Mammut
americanum_ in place in the bank of the canal. Remains of _Elephas
columbi_ and undetermined species of _Bison_ and _Odocoileus_ had been
thrown out by the dredge.
4. _Almero Farm, St. John County._—At the residence of Mr. Fred R.
Allen, 113 King street, St. Augustine, Florida, the writer had the
privilege of examining seven teeth of _Mammut americanum_ which had been
found near Mr. Allen’s farm, 28 miles south of St. Augustine, in the
Inland Waterway Canal. At the same place Mr. Allen had found remains of
a fossil horse, a mylodon, alligator, and a part of the plastron of
_Terrapene antipex_. The deposits are to be regarded as belonging to
some part of the first half of the Pleistocene, probably the first
interglacial.
6. _Daytona, Volusia County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No. 2150) is
an upper left last molar of _Mammut americanum_, sent in August 1901
from Daytona by E. T. Conrad & Company. It had been found at a depth of
5 feet in an old oyster-bed which was being dug up for surfacing the
streets. The locality is within the limits of the town and about 2 miles
from the Atlantic coast. The senders reported a little later that they
had found four other teeth, a piece of tusk 40 inches long and 7 inches
in diameter, and about a bushel of bones and fragments. There appeared
to be other bones in the pit, but nothing more is on record. Since that
mastodon died there, the land appears to have been depressed beneath the
sea, permitting the growth of the oyster-bed, after which there was
again an elevation.
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