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. _Windfall, Tipton County._—In the Morrill collection, in the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, there are two teeth, an upper and a
lower last molar, secured at Windfall by Professor Erwin H. Barbour.
These teeth have been described and illustrated by the writer (36th Ann.
Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 742, plates XXV, XXVI). Windfall is
situated on Wisconsin drift, some miles west of the more or less
morainic belt which marks the northwestward continuation of the Union
City moraine.
4. _Bringhurst, Carroll County._—In the State Museum at Indianapolis is
a last molar found some years ago near Bringhurst and presented by Mr.
John Flora. There are 27 plates present, an unusual number. The length
of the tooth is 320 mm. from the summit of the first to the base of the
twenty-sixth. No information was furnished as to the exact place where
the tooth was found, nor as to the depth and kind of materials.
Bringhurst is situated on Wisconsin drift, and the animal must have
lived at some time after the ice retired from the Fowler-Lafayette
moraine.
ILLINOIS.
(Maps 12, 38.)
1. _Staley, Champaign County._—In the collection at the University of
Illinois the writer has seen a lower last molar recorded as having been
found by John Early at a point 5.5 miles west and 1.5 miles south of
Champaign, apparently not far from Staley. It is said to have been
picked up by a dredge; hence probably in some ditching operations. The
writer regarded the tooth as belonging to _Elephas columbi_.
Apparently this tooth was found very near the outer border of the
Champaign moraine; hence the animal might have lived at any time after
the deposition of this moraine. It is more probable, however, that this
species did not affect such a cold environment, and haunted those
regions when the climate had greatly ameliorated.
2. _Stronghurst, Henderson County._—In the summer of 1914, Mr. John
Shick discovered near Stronghurst, in a well, at a depth of 20 feet,
four elephant teeth. A letter, with photographs of these teeth, sent to
the U. S. Geological Survey, was shown the writer, who identified the
teeth as belonging to _Elephas columbi_, apparently the second and third
upper deciduous molars, right and left. They were reported to have been
found in a dark soil. All the region about Stronghurst is occupied by
Illinoian drift. Since at a depth of 20 feet an old soil was reached it
becomes quite certain that this represents a pre-Illinoian interglacial
deposit, probably the Yarmouth stage; and to that must be assigned the
time of the elephant in question.
3. _Chillicothe, Peoria County._—In the palæontological collection of
the University of Iowa is a tooth of _Elephas columbi_, recorded as
collected at Chillicothe by Fred Wachs. It was found in gravel, at a
depth of 40 feet, but the exact locality is not known. The tooth is the
first lower true molar.
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