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
3. _Vevay, Switzerland County._—Professor E. Danglade, of the U. S. Fish
Commission, presented the U. S. National Museum a tooth (No. 7913),
apparently a second true molar, possibly the first, of _E. primigenius_.
There are 10 plates present. The tooth was found on the shore of Ohio
River about 1.5 miles below Vevay, having been washed out of a gravel
bank, and is much weathered. No exact conclusions about the age of the
tooth can be drawn from the known facts.
IN AREA BETWEEN THE SHELBYVILLE AND THE BLOOMINGTON MORAINES.
10. _Webster, Wayne County._—In the collection of Earlham College are 2
elephant teeth, credited to Jehiel Bond and found on Nolands Fork, near
Webster, Wayne County. One is the second molar of the right side of the
upper jaw and is much worn; the other is the third upper molar of
apparently the same side and is but little worn. These teeth were
mentioned by the author in his report on the “Pleistocene Vertebrata of
Indiana” (33d Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 750), but he had not
then determined to what species they belonged. A renewed study shows
that they certainly belong to _Elephas primigenius_. With these teeth is
a tusk which measures 1,800 mm. along the convex curve.
Webster is situated south of the Bloomington moraine, in a tract of
country indicated by Leverett as covered by undulating drift, in part
morainic.
The greater part of this political township, made up apparently of parts
of townships numbered 13 north and ranges 8 and 9 west, is occupied by
outwash deposits laid down by the Wabash River and brought from further
north during the Wisconsin stage; but at present, at least, it is
impossible to assign the animal to any particular division of that
stage.
IN AREA NORTH OF BLOOMINGTON MORAINE AND SOUTH OF THE MISSISSINAWA
MORAINE AND THE WABASH RIVER.
4. _Windsor, Randolph County._—In the collection at Earlham College,
Richmond, Indiana, is a part of a tooth referred to this species. It is
either the last milk molar or the first true molar of the right side of
the lower jaw. There are present eleven plates and one or more is
missing from the rear. The length along the base is 100 mm., the width
is 55 mm. There are six plates in a line 50 mm. long. This tooth was
found August 20, 1893, in the bed of Stony Creek, near Windsor.
According to Leverett’s glacial map of Indiana, this is just south of
the Union City moraine near its junction with the Bloomington moraine.
By what is known of the habits of this species it may have lived even
when the glacial sheet was forming the Union City moraine.
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