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
2. _North Plainfield, Union County._—In Rutgers College is a
considerably weathered elephant tooth referred to this species. It was
found on Greenbrook road, 2 miles east of North Plainfield. There are
about 12 ridge-plates present in the specimen. This locality is on the
border of the Wisconsin drift moraine, and the elephant tooth was
probably buried in outwash from the moraine.
PENNSYLVANIA.
(Map 11.)
1. _Brookfield, Tioga County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No. 193) is
a part of an upper molar of _Elephas primigenius_ sent in 1889 by Mr.
Ira Sayles, of Brookfield. It was found along the north fork of
Cowanesqua Creek. The hinder 13 plates are present. Mr. Sayles, in a
letter to the present writer, stated that originally the tooth had 8
more enamel plates. This would seem to indicate that the tooth is the
hindermost molar. Ten of the plates on the side of the tooth are crossed
by a line 100 mm. long. The animal probably belonged to the Late
Wisconsin stage.
2. _Chadd’s Ford, Chester or Delaware County._—In the collection of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, is a fragment of an elephant
tooth labeled as found in kaolin deposits owned by W. W. Jeffries and G.
B. Dillingham. The specimen was described by Leidy (Proc. Phila. Acad.,
1875, p. 121). In this fragment are six ridge-plates, and a line
crossing them measures 60 mm. The tooth appears to have belonged to
_Elephas primigenius_. Leidy stated that it had been found lying on the
kaolin bed, 8 feet below the surface.
In the same collection is a fragment of a tooth to be referred to _E.
primigenius_, consisting of three plates, apparently presented by I.
McClure. It is said to have been found in Chester County, but no more
exact locality was named.
3. _Harvey’s, Greene County._—From Mr. Andrew J. Waychoff, of
Waynesburg, the writer has received for examination a lower jaw of a
young individual of _Elephas primigenius_ found near the place named.
Professor Edwin Linton sent the information that it was discovered in
the bed of Gray’s Fork of Ten mile Creek, about 0.25 mile west of
Graysville. In the jaw are the second true molars, right and left,
slightly worn. The length of each is 165 mm., the width 62 mm.
4. _Lone Pine, Washington County._—From Professor Edwin Linton, of
Washington and Jefferson College, the writer received a photograph of an
elephant tooth found at Lone Pine. This place is located on Little Ten
mile Creek, 7.25 miles southeast of Washington. Professor Linton writes
that a 100–mm. line crosses ten of the ridge-plates on the side of the
tooth. The photograph shows that there are 20 plates present, of which
12 are worn more or less.
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