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
4. _Penny’s Slough, Henry County._—In the collection of the Davenport
Academy of Science is a large upper left hindermost molar tooth, labeled
as having been found in Penny’s Slough. It is very large, the length
along the base being 357 mm. (about 14 inches), and the height of the
eighteenth plate is 175 mm. There is an unusual number of the plates,
apparently 27. There are 7 plates in a line 100 mm. long. The tooth is
moderately worn. There are 2 large roots in front and 2 rows of smaller
ones behind these. The base is straight and the plates little warped.
Mr. C. C. Martin, of Geneseo, Illinois, county surveyor of Henry County,
has informed the writer that Penny’s Slough is located in sections 17,
18, 19, and 20 of township 18 north, range 3 east, in the northern part
of the county and on Rock River. On Leverett’s glacial map of this
region (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv., XXXVIII, plate VI) the area is
indicated as being occupied by sand and gravel plains and terraces of
Wisconsin age. It seems most probable that this elephant lived when the
Wisconsin glacier was not far away. However, there is a variety of
Pleistocene formations in that region and the elephant in question may
belong to the Iowan or to the Illinoian glacial stage.
5. _Kendall County._—In the collection of the National Museum is a
plaster cast made from a tooth of _Elephas primigenius_, found somewhere
in Kendall County, but the present location of the original tooth is not
known. It had a length of 280 mm. along the base. There appears to have
been 20 plates, 8 in a 100–mm. line. The tooth seems to have resembled
greatly one of _E. primigenius_ which was brought from Alaska.
Kendall County is mostly occupied by moraines formed during the
Wisconsin stage of the Pleistocene, especially moraines which were built
up just before the retirement of the ice into the basin of Lake
Michigan. Probably the elephant which possessed the tooth lived during
the latter part of the Wisconsin stage.
WISCONSIN.
(Map 11.)
1. _Milwaukee._—In the Public Museum of Milwaukee are considerable parts
of a mammoth skeleton (No. 5351) found within the limits of the city.
These were secured in May 1898, in excavating for a sewer along Cold
Spring avenue and between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets. On
learning of the discovery, Mr. George B. Turner, then taxidermist of the
Milwaukee Public Museum, afterwards chief taxidermist in the U. S.
National Museum, took charge of the excavations for the skeleton. He
furnished the writer with an account of his work, giving a list of the
bones, a plan of the area excavated, and a section of the deposits
passed through. A description of the remains is given below:
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