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
15. _Butler County._—In the collection of the Academy of Natural
Sciences at Philadelphia is an elephant tooth which is accredited to W.
S. Vaux and labeled as having been found in Butler County. The tooth has
now a length of 230 mm., but is worn down to the base in front and the
large anterior root is missing. The width is 105 mm. It appears to be a
large hindermost upper molar of _E. primigenius_. Nothing more definite
is known about the locality. The whole country is covered with Wisconsin
drift.
6. _Dayton, Montgomery County._—In the collection of the Society of
Archæology and History at the University of Ohio is a tooth of _Elephas
primigenius_ which, as reported by Professor W. C. Mills, was found near
the middle of the eastern boundary of Montgomery County. This would not
be far from Dayton. The locality is within the area covered by Wisconsin
drift and the animal lived probably not far away from the foot of the
retiring glacier.
7. _Selma, Clark County._—In Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, are two
upper last molars, right and left, said to have been collected at Selma.
There are nine ridge-plates in a line 100 mm. long. Nothing is known
regarding the geological conditions connected with the discovery, except
that the locality is within the Wisconsin area.
8. _Versailles, Darke County._—In the U. S. National Museum is an upper
hindermost molar of _Elephas primigenius_ (No. 4761), recorded as found
in Wayne Township, on the farm of Foster Compton, in the northeast
corner of the township. This would be probably about 4 miles north of
east of Versailles. The country is level and was doubtless originally
swampy. This tooth is apparently the one mentioned by A. C. Lindemuth in
1878 (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. III, pt. 1, p. 509). He stated that it had
been picked up in the creek bottom just north of Versailles.
Under this number may be recorded a tooth of _E. primigenius_ found many
years ago by George H. Teaford, about 2 miles southeast of Palestine, in
Darke County, and now in the collection in the public library at
Greenville. It is a lower left hindermost molar. There are 20 plates
present and evidently a few are missing from the front.
9. _Jersey, Licking County._—In the collection of the Ohio State
University, Columbus, are two large teeth of _Elephas primigenius_
labeled as sent from this place and credited to D. D. Condit. The length
along the base of one of the teeth is 286 mm. There are nine plates in a
100–mm. line and the enamel is unusually thin. This locality is on the
western border of the Wisconsin terminal moraine and the animal belongs
therefore to the Late Wisconsin stage.
10. _Chicago, Huron County._—In the collection of the Society of
Archæology and History, at the University of Ohio, the writer has seen a
tooth of _Elephas primigenius_, labeled as having been found at this
place, which is located on or close to the Defiance moraine.
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