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
5. _Winchester, Randolph County._—In the collection of Earlham College
is a lower molar of the right side, apparently the first, labeled as
found at Winchester. No details are furnished. Winchester lies on the
border of the Union City moraine and all the country about is occupied
by Wisconsin drift. It is quite certain, therefore, that this mammoth
lived at some time between the formation of the moraine mentioned and
the end of the Pleistocene epoch.
6. _Fairmount, Grant County._—Here was found, in 1904, the nearly
complete skeleton of the mammoth mounted in the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City. It has been described and figured by
the writer (36th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 718, figs. 63, 64;
Iowa Geol. Surv., vol. XXIII, p. 396, fig. 133). It was found on the
farm of Mrs. Dora C. Gift, about 4 miles east of Fairmount. The location
is in the southeast quarter of section 23, township 23 north, range 8
east. This information has been furnished by Mr. George Swisher,
surveyor of Grant County.
This whole region is mapped by Leverett as being occupied by ground
moraine of till plains, and the animal must have lived after the
Wisconsin ice cleared away. A tract more or less morainic, an extension
of the Union City moraine, is indicated by Leverett on his latest map as
passing further south than Fairmount. At the earliest it must have been
after the withdrawal of the ice from the Union City moraine that the
animal lived. Considering the character of the surrounding country, the
nature of the deposit inclosing the skeleton, and the depth at which it
was buried, it might be supposed that it was not long after the
formation of the Union City moraine that this elephant existed.
9. _North Liberty, St. Joseph County._—From Professor A. M. Kirsch, of
Notre Dame University, the writer received a photograph of an upper
molar of _Elephas primigenius_ found at New Liberty about 1905. This
tooth is worn to the base in front and to the fourth plate from the
rear. Evidently several plates are gone from the front. Apparently 18
remain. The extreme length is 215 mm. The edges of the plates, as seen
on the side of the tooth present a sigmoid curve. The enamel was
evidently thin.
IN AREA NORTH OF KANKAKEE RIVER.
8. _Crown Point, Lake County._—Mr. G. W. Stose, of the U. S. Geological
Survey, informed the writer that about 1888 he helped in exhuming some
bones of an elephant near Crown Point, discovered in the construction of
a large ditch in township 34 north, range 8 west. The bones lay in a
swamp clay at a depth of 8 to 10 feet. A part of a tusk, one tooth, and
one large bone were put in Guenther’s Museum, Chicago. Another tooth
(M^3) owned by Mr. Stose (No. 8067) was presented to the U. S. National
Museum in 1914. It is worn to the base in front; 22 plates remain. The
length of the tooth is 285 mm., and the width 100 mm. There are 8 plates
in a 100 mm. line. The enamel is thin and little folded.
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