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
IN AREA BETWEEN THE WABASH AND KANKAKEE RIVERS.
7. _Near Francisville, Pulaski County._—The writer has received from Mr.
W. D. Pattison, of Winamac, Indiana, two photographs of a tooth of an
elephant which quite certainly belonged to _Elephas primigenius_. The
locality is in the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section
20, township 30 north, range 4 west. According to Leverett’s map, this
is in a tract covered by Wisconsin ground moraine and but little above
the level of the Kankakee marshes, the 700–foot contour-line being not
far away. Just west of the place is a part of the Marseilles moraine.
The spot must be very near Metamonong Creek.
11. _Rochester, Fulton County._—The American Museum of Natural History,
New York, has a well-preserved skull of _Elephas primigenius_ which had
been exhumed in the vicinity of Rochester. The exact locality is not
known to the writer.
The specimen is supposed to have been a female. The tusks are slender
and only 700 mm. long. The hindermost upper molar is present. It is 245
mm. long and 75 mm. wide. There are 10 plates in a 100–mm. line. There
appear to be 25 or 26 plates present. The second molar was still in use
and about 130 mm. long. This was a large elephant, the measurements
falling only slightly below the specimen in that museum which was
obtained near Fairmount, Grant County.
ILLINOIS.
(Maps 11, 38.)
1. _Cairo, Alexander County._—The collection of the Buffalo Society of
Natural History contains a tooth of an elephant, an upper left second
true molar, apparently belonging to _Elephas primigenius_. It is
reported to have been found at Cairo, at a depth of 95 feet below the
bed of Ohio River. It was probably discovered in preparing the
foundations of a railroad bridge. It has 15 ridge-plates, besides the
front and rear talons. The length of the base, in a straight line, is
156 mm. There are 10 plates in a line 100 mm. long, a number too great
for _E. columbi_. The tooth is unworn. It has suffered no injury, as
from being rolled along the river bed; hence the animal probably died
near where the tooth was found. It is impossible to assign the tooth
with certainty to any particular stage of Pleistocene times. It seems
most probable that the animal lived at the time the Illinoian ice-sheet
was only a few miles away; the depth at which it was buried in the
filling of the river channel appears to lend confirmation to this view.
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