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
It would be more surprising to find this species in Florida had it not
already been discovered in North Carolina and at two places in Texas,
Temple and near San Antonio. One can not state with certainty the stage
of the Pleistocene during which this individual lived, but the writer
believes that it was during an early stage, perhaps the first
interglacial.
TENNESSEE.
(Map 11. Figure 23.)
1. _Whitesburg, Hamblen County._—In a collection of fossil vertebrates
sent many years ago to the U. S. National Museum and described by the
writer in 1920 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. LVIII, p. 85) is a fragment
consisting of two plates from the rear of a penultimate milk molar,
probably of the lower jaw. This is referred to _Elephas primigenius_. Of
page 395 will be found a list of the accompanying species.
KENTUCKY.
(Map 11.)
1. _Bigbone Lick, Boone County._—In the Academy of Natural Sciences at
Philadelphia is a fine upper left hindermost molar, sent from the place
named. There are present 23 or 24 plates. It is worn back to the apex of
the eighteenth plate. The length along the base in a straight line is
253 mm.; there are therefore about 9 plates in a 100–mm. line. Some
other teeth from the same place, now in the collection, were regarded as
belonging to the same species.
In William Cooper’s account of collections made at Bigbone Lick (Monthly
Amer. Jour. Geol., vol. I, pp. 168–171) he showed that great numbers of
teeth as well as bones of elephants had been collected at various times
at this locality. He refers all to _Elephas primigenius_, but certainly
many of them must have belonged to the species now known as _E.
columbi_. Cooper mentions the discovery of a fine and nearly entire
skull of an elephant, 4 feet long, having all of the teeth and one tusk
in it. In the nearly 100 years that have elapsed this specimen has
probably suffered destruction.
FINDS OF ELEPHAS COLUMBI IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
ONTARIO.
(Map 12.)
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