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 1870 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, p. 98), Leidy reported that
he had seen in the collection of C. N. Shepard, at Amherst College,
remains of elephant from Ashley River. It is certain that at least a
part of these remains belonged to _Elephas columbi_. In the U. S.
National Museum are teeth, recorded as having been secured from the
phosphate beds about Charleston. As an example may be mentioned No.
2105, a large upper right molar, with 20 ridge-plates. Another has the
number 1614 (Hay, Iowa Geol. Surv., vol. XXIII, p. 413, plate LXI, fig.
4).
In the Charleston Museum the writer has seen a lower second milk molar
(No. 13504) of this species. There are 9 ridge-plates and front and rear
talons. The length is 123 mm., the width 52 mm., with 8 plates in a
100–mm. line. In the same museum is an upper left second milk molar (No.
1109) with 8 plates present. The length along the base is 95 mm.; from
the base in front to the rear of the crown 117 mm.; width 55 mm. This
tooth appears to have been found somewhere about Charleston. In the same
museum are other teeth of this species, mostly parts of the hindermost
molars. Other teeth are found in the private collections of Charleston.
In the American Museum of Natural History, New York, there are some
teeth (Nos. 13707, 13708) from the vicinity of Charleston which are
referred to _Elephas columbi_. One is an upper hindermost molar, worn to
the base in front and having left 18 plates. There are 6 plates in a
100–mm. line. The enamel is thick. The length of the tooth is 292 mm.;
the width, 90 mm. Another is a worn lower tooth with 16 plates.
Another tooth, either a last milk molar or a first true molar, is not
worn to the base and retains the front root. There are 12 plates and a
large talon and a 100–mm. line crosses 8 plates. The enamel is thick and
considerably festooned. The greatest length of the tooth is 173 mm.
There is another lower right tooth, probably the last milk molar, which
presents 11 plates and front and rear talons. There are nearly 8 plates
in a 100–mm. line.
Another right lower tooth, apparently the first true molar, 165 mm. long
on the grinding-face, has likewise 8 plates in 100 mm. A part of an
upper hindermost molar preserves 11 plates. There are 6 plates in 100
mm. and the enamel is thick and folded.
For a list of the vertebrate fossils found in the region about
Charleston, and their geological age, the reader is referred to page
363.
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