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
Lewis and said to have been
found at Zanesville. There are nine or ten plates in a 100–mm. line.
Zanesville is situated in the unglaciated part of the State; but outwash
from both the Illinoian and the Wisconsin glaciers has been deposited
along the river. For a knowledge of the Pleistocene epoch in that
region, Leverett’s work may be consulted (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv.,
vol. XLI, p. 158, plate II).
3. _Duncan Falls, Muskingum County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No.
308) is a tooth, apparently the first true molar, of _Elephas
primigenius_ labeled as having been found on Salt Creek, in the county
named. Salt Creek is situated in the eastern part of the county, flows
southward, and empties into Muskingum River at Duncan Falls. This tooth
is probably the one mentioned by J. W. Foster in 1857 (Proc. Amer.
Assoc. Adv. Sci., 10th meeting, 1856, p. 158) as having been found near
the mouth of Salt Creek and then owned by Mr. A. C. Ross.
4. _Millport, Columbiana County._—From Professor Edwin Linton, of
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, the writer
received a letter stating that there is in that institution a tooth of
an elephant found in section 7 of Franklin Township (17 north, range 3
west), apparently about 2 miles northeast of Millport and on or near the
stream Nancy Run. The locality is outside of the glaciated area.
Probably the animal had lived during the Wisconsin stage, but there is a
chance that it belonged to an earlier time.
5. _Mount Healthy, Hamilton County._—In 1914, the writer received the
photograph of a skull of _Elephas primigenius_ which was found some
years before at Mount Healthy. Professor N. M. Fenneman informed the
writer that it was discovered on the farm of Barney Miller, in the bank
of Whisky Run. Professor C. A. Hunt, of Mount Healthy, has sent the
information that it was found in the bed of Taylor Creek, a branch of
West Fork of Mill Creek, in the northeast quarter of section 28,
township 3, range 1, of the Miami purchase. Taylor Creek is probably
another name for Whisky Run. The skull was met with in deep alluvial
sediment. At the time of Professor Hunt’s writing it was in the
possession of Mr. Jacob Kismer, North Side, Cincinnati. In 1920 it was
purchased for the U. S. National Museum (No. 10261).
The front of the skull is preserved from the vertex to the front of the
premaxilla. A part of one tusk, about 4 inches in diameter, is present.
An upper molar was detached and later lost or otherwise disposed of. The
one present has 10 ridge-plates in a 100–mm. line. Leverett (Monogr.
XLI, p. 283), in speaking of drift deposits in Mill Creek Valley, stated
that the greater part of the drift is Illinoian. Professor Fenneman
(Bull. 19, Geol. Surv. Ohio, p. 158) refers the deposit to the Wisconsin
stage.
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