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
11. _Kamms, Cuyahoga County._—About May 1, 1911, Mr. F. W. Glenn, of
Kamms, sent to the U. S. National Museum a photograph of a tooth which
the present writer identified as belonging to _Elephas primigenius_.
This town is about 4 miles from the shore of Lake Erie.
12. _Cleveland, Cuyahoga County._—In the collection of Adelbert College,
Cleveland, is a lower jaw of _Elephas primigenius_ which was obtained
here. Professor H. P. Cushing has furnished the writer photographs of
this jaw, which belonged to a young animal, inasmuch as the hindermost
milk molar had not wholly appeared above the bone. Of this tooth, six
ridge-plates were crossed by a line 50 mm. in length.
This jaw was found in 1909, in making a sewer, in hitherto undisturbed
materials, 22 feet from the surface. In the section at that point is
found 22 feet of sand resting on till, the latter being the upper part
of the glacial filling of the preglacial Cuyahoga Valley, 300 feet down
to the rock. The jaw was at the base of the sands. Professor Cushing
regarded the jaw as older than old Lake Warren and presumably as
belonging to the time of Lake Whittlesey.
13. _New Berlin, Stark County._—At Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio,
the writer has seen a well-preserved specimen of an upper second true
molar of _Elephas primigenius_ found near New Berlin. There were counted
16 ridge-plates, of which 11 are in a 100–mm. line.
From Rev. J. P. Stahl, Alliance, Ohio, the writer has learned that this
tooth was found about a mile south of New Berlin, in a small gravel hill
along the Canton and New Berlin highway. The gravel was being removed to
make a road-bed. New Berlin is on the Grand River moraine and the
elephant belongs therefore to the Late Wisconsin stage.
14. _Amboy, Ashtabula County._—In the Buffalo, New York, Natural History
Society, the writer examined a tooth of _Elephas primigenius_,
discovered at this place. It is the front half of the right upper
hindermost molar. There are nine ridge-plates in a 100–mm. line. At the
same place, and probably under the same geological conditions, were
found teeth of _Elephas columbi_. These conditions will be described on
page 329.
15. See page 135.
MICHIGAN.
(Map 11.)
1. _Three Oaks, Berrien County._—Mr. C. K. Warren, of Three Oaks, has in
his possession the upper and lower last molars, right and left, of an
elephant which appears to have been found somewhere in the neighborhood
of Three Oaks. These are large teeth and seem to the writer to belong to
_E. primigenius_. The left upper tooth is 300 mm. long and 100 mm. wide.
There are 22 plates. The tooth is worn back to the fourteenth plate, 170
mm. high. There are only seven plates in a 100–mm. line, but it must be
taken into account that the tooth is a large one for the species. The
plates are parallel with one another and the base of the tooth is
straight. The enamel is thin.
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