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
20. _Brewster, Polk County._—In his report of 1915 (p. 106, fig. 36) Dr.
E. H. Sellards figured a fragment of a tusk, found in a phosphate mine,
which he supposed might belong to _Gomphotherium floridanum_. He figured
also a tooth (p. 104, fig. 34) which he definitely referred to this
species, but it is not clear that it was found at Brewster. A list of
the species found associated with the tusk will be found on page 380.
Among these species is _Mammut progenium_, a species ranging from the
Aftonian to the Late Wisconsin. While all the species of the list are
referred by Sellards to the Upper Miocene or Lower Pliocene, _M.
progenium_ appears to favor a later reference.
10. _Pains Creek, Polk? County._—In the collection of the Academy of
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, is a tooth of _Mammut americanum_
recorded as having been found on Pains Creek, 50 miles from Tampa. It
appears to be a second milk molar; the length is 43 mm., the width at
the second crest likewise 43 mm.
There is a Big Pains Creek in the northwestern corner of Polk County,
which empties into Peace Creek. A little further south is Little Pains
Creek, which empties into Peace Creek in De Soto County, near Bowling
Green. On which of these the tooth was found can not be determined.
11. _Peace Creek, De Soto County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No.
1990) is an upper right hindermost molar recorded as having been found
on Peace River. It was a part of the exhibit of the Plant System at the
Centennial Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia. It is credited also to the
Peace River Phosphate Company. Probably the tooth was found somewhere
not far from Arcadia. Leidy (Bull. 84, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 129) does
not record the species from Arcadia, but his undetermined species of the
genus may have been _M. americanum_.
The tooth mentioned above has five cross-crests and a conical talon. At
the ends of the transverse valleys are large tubercles.
ALABAMA.
(Map 5.)
1. _Bogue Chitto, Dallas County._—The U. S. National Museum contains 3
or 4 fragments of large molars of _Mammut americanum_ found not far from
the town named. One fragment is labeled as having been found in section
10, township 17 north, range 7 east. This would probably be 6 or 7 miles
west of north from the town named. Another fragment is said to have been
found in the bed of Bogue Chitto. The teeth were sent to the U. S.
Geological Survey by Crawford P. Lewis. From this same region there have
been collected remains of _Elephas imperator_ and _Equus leidyi_.
MISSISSIPPI.
(Map 5.)
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