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
For the examination of the geology about Savannah the reader is referred
to page 371, map 40.
FLORIDA.
(Maps 12, 13.)
1. _St. Marks River, Wakulla County._—In 1870 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., 1870, p. 98), Leidy stated that from this place there was in the
collection of the Natural History Society of Boston a molar of the
thick-plated variety of elephant. The grinding-surface, irregular and
worn so as to present a terraced appearance, has a length of 8.5 inches
and included 11 ridge-plates. The species is quite certainly _Elephas
columbi_.
It may be mentioned that Sellards (8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., p.
103) reported that part of a skeleton of a mastodon or of an elephant
had been obtained from Wakulla Spring by Mr. John L. Thomas. This is
near Crawfordville.
2. _Station 120, Duval County._—Sellards (8th Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv.
Florida, p. 106) reported that _Elephas columbi_ had been discovered at
Station 120, on the Inland Waterway Canal. At the same place had been
found _Mammut americanum_, an undetermined species of _Bison_, and an
undetermined species of _Odocoileus_. The locality is probably 5 miles
south of Pablo Beach.
3. _Citra, Marion County._—In January 1914, the writer saw at Ward’s
Establishment, at Rochester, New York, the hinder half of a lower left
hindermost molar of _Elephas columbi_, labeled as found at Citra. No
details were preserved respecting the history of the tooth. There were 6
ridge-plates in a 100–mm. line.
4. _Near Mantanzas, St. John County._—At the residence of Fred R. Allen,
St. Augustine, Florida, the writer has seen part of four hindermost
molars, three upper and one lower, of _Elephas columbi_, found in the
Inland Waterway Canal, near his farm, 28 miles south of St. Augustine,
apparently not far from Mantanzas. At the same place have been found
_Mammut americanum_, _Equus_ sp., _Mylodon harlani_, and _Terrapene
antipex_. Sellards (8th Rep. p. 106) adds to this list an undetermined
species of _Bison_ and one of _Odocoileus_.
5. _Ocala, Marion County._—From this place Leidy (Trans. Wagner Inst.,
vol. II, p. 17, plate III, figs. 6–9) has described and figured a first
and a second milk molar. The figures have been reproduced by the writer
(Iowa Geol. Surv., vol. XXIII, plate LXI, figs. 2, 3, 5, 6). These teeth
certainly belong to _Elephas columbi_. They were found in a fissure in a
limestone rock, near Ocala, in the property of Mr. F. M. Phillips. With
them were a part of a skull of _Smilodon floridanus_, teeth of a horse
which Leidy referred to his _Equus fraternus_ (=_E. leidyi_), and teeth
supposed to belong to the little camel _Procamelus (Auchenia) minimus_.
These fossils were referred to the Pliocene, but apparently there is not
sufficient reason for doing so. The geology of the locality is treated
on page 378.
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