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
5. _Fayette County._—In Kentucky University there is a lower left
hindermost molar of a mastodon, labeled as having been found somewhere
in the county.
6. _Drennon Springs, Henry County._—In 1881, Mr. G. K. Greene, (2d Ann.
Rep. Bur. Statist. and Geol. Indiana, 1880, p. 428) stated that the
collection of the State University of Indiana contains a remarkably fine
half of a lower jaw of a mastodon, found at the place named. Nothing
more is known about it. In 1831, C. S. Rafinesque (Monthly Amer. Jour.
Geol., vol. I, p. 354) wrote that “Drennon’s Licks had bones and
mounds,” indicating that at that early time fossil bones had been found
there.
7. _Louisville, Jefferson County._—In 1835, Dr. Richard Harlan (Med. and
Phys. Res., p. 256) referred to statements made to the effect that
several mastodon skeletons had been found in digging the canal around
the falls of the Ohio, at Louisville. They were taken from the river
banks, at a depth of several feet beneath the present soil. It was added
that several pairs of tusks were arranged in a circle within which were
remains of a fire and Indian tools. The authority for this story is
hardly what one could desire.
8. _Smithland?, Livingston County._—In the Academy of Natural Sciences
at Philadelphia is a part of a lower left hindermost mastodon molar,
labeled as having been found at the mouth of Cumberland River. It is
credited to Dr. P. B. Goddard. No details have been preserved. Smithland
is at the mouth of Cumberland River, but how far away from this town the
tooth was found is not known.
FINDS OF ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
ONTARIO.
(Map 11.)
1. _Toronto, York County._—In 1863 (Canad. Naturalist and Geol., vol.
VIII, p. 399), Professor Alex. Winchell wrote that he had a cast of a
tooth found at Toronto, and thought by him to belong to _Elephas
primigenius_. The writer saw this cast at Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is
evidently a lower right penultimate molar of the species mentioned. It
is to be regretted that more information was not furnished as to the
exact locality and the beds; it would be of interest to know whether it
had been found in the interglacial deposits that occur about Toronto.
2. _Amaranth, Dufferin County._—In 1908 (Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol.
IX, p. 387), Dr. Robert Bell reported the finding of the greater part of
the skeleton of an elephant in a swamp in lot 9, range 7, of the
township of Amaranth. The tusk was said to be 14 feet long and 8 inches
in diameter. The context indicates that the remains were found at a
moderate depth in shell marl.
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