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
13. _Fellsmere, St. Lucie County._—Dr. E. H. Sellards (8th Ann. Rep.
Florida Geol. Surv., p. 105) stated that _Mammut americanum_,
represented by a tooth or teeth, had been found at Fellsmere in
connection with the construction of drainage canals.
7. _Vero, St. Lucie County._—At this place have been found
well-preserved remains of _Mammut americanum_. Besides a part of a lower
jaw, there are some parts of tusks and fragments of other parts. The
right side of a palate containing the second and the third true molars,
found in what has been called stratum No. 2, has been figured by
Sellards (8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., plate XXXI). The age of
these will be discussed on pages 381–384.
14. _Palm Beach, Palm Beach County._—In his report of 1916, already
cited, Dr. Sellards noted the fact, on page 105, that several teeth of
_Mammut americanum_ had been obtained by him, 8 miles west of the
Florida East Coast Railroad, in the canal constructed to drain the
Everglades. From the same canal had been secured _Elephas columbi_,
_Equus complicatus_, and a femur of a species of _Bison_. Sellards
informs us that the vertebrate fossils here, as at Vero and many other
localities, are embedded in the sand and muck beds which lie above the
Pleistocene marls.
8. _Hillsboro County._—Remains of mastodon have been reported from
various places in this county, but the localities have not been very
exactly defined.
In the National Museum (No. 6726) is a lower left hindermost molar of
_Mammut americanum_ which was sent by Mr. W. L. Spitler, of Tampa.
Exactly where it was found is not recorded. The tooth is white and well
preserved. There are five cross-crests. The cones are unusually low, and
such teeth may possibly represent an undescribed species.
At Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, the writer has seen a mastodon
tooth, labeled as having come from Tampa Bay. The tooth is heavy and
rock-like. A part of an atlas of the mastodon is from the same place.
In the collection of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, is a lower right
last molar of a mastodon, labeled as having been found at Sulphur
Springs, Hillsboro County. The writer has not found where this place is
situated. All of the specimens mentioned belong to _Mammut americanum_.
9. _Alafia River, Hillsboro County._—Dr. E. H. Sellards (7th Ann. Rep.
Florida Geol. Surv., p. 112, fig. 45) records the finding of an upper
right last molar of _Mammut americanum_ in this river. The tooth is
unworn and has four cross-crests and a large talon. It was preserved in
the collection of S. A. Robinson. With a collection of teeth of _Equus_
found in Alafia River and preserved in the American Museum of Natural
History, New York, is a single cross-crest of _Mammut americanum_.
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