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
1. _Wirt County._—From Professor John L. Tilton, of the University of
West Virginia, the writer has received for examination a fragment of a
tooth of _Elephas columbi_ reported to have been found many years ago,
somewhere in Wirt County along Little Kanawha River. No details have
been preserved. The thick ridge-plates and the heavy crimped enamel
betray the species.
NORTH CAROLINA.
(Maps 12, 39.)
1. _New Hanover County._—In the State Museum at Raleigh, the writer has
seen a part of a molar tooth of this species consisting of 9
ridge-plates. It is said to have been found in the quarry of Ross and
Larry. There are 8 ridge-plates in a 100–mm. line and the enamel is
rather thick.
Captain E. D. Williams, of Wilmington, has informed the writer that this
quarry is situated about 9 miles below Wilmington, near the Fort Fisher
road. From a point a little below this Captain Williams secured a tooth
of _Mammut americanum_.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
(Map 12.)
1. _Beaufort, Beaufort County._—In 1877, Dr. Leidy (Jour. Acad. Nat.
Sci. Phila., vol. VIII, p. 213) stated that there was in the exhibit of
the Smithsonian Institution at the exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876,
a last lower molar of this species, found at Beaufort. The present
writer has not recognized the tooth in the collection of the U. S.
National Museum.
In Rutgers College are six or more teeth or parts of teeth of _E.
columbi_, recorded as coming from Coosaw River. In the collection of
Amherst College the writer has seen two lower hindermost molars, labeled
as collected in Coosaw River.
2. _Edisto River._—In the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia there is a fragment of a molar of _Elephas columbi_,
comprising only 2 ridge-plates, recorded as having been found in or on
Edisto River. The specimen is credited to Dr. H. C. Chapman. While the
locality is indefinite, it probably was somewhere around Edisto Island.
3. _Charleston, Charleston County._—Numerous teeth of _Elephas columbi_
have been found in the region surrounding Charleston. Godman (Amer. Nat.
Hist., vol. II, p. 257) referred to a statement made by Catesby to the
effect that negroes had found teeth along Stono River which they
recognized as those of an elephant. This had previously been mentioned
by Barton in his “Archæologia Americana,” 1814. In Holmes’s
“Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,” page 108, Leidy stated that
small fragments of teeth and bones, usually much water-worn, of the
extinct elephant are not infrequently found in the Post-Pliocene
deposits in the vicinity of Ashley River. In a footnote to this remark,
F. S. Holmes stated that later a perfect tooth had been discovered and
was figured on plate XVII; but the tooth there figured came from Texas.
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