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
10. _Kingsford, Polk County._—In the collection of Yale University is a
fragment of a lower molar of _Elephas columbi_, recorded as having been
found at Kingsford. It was obtained under 19 feet of phosphate rock and
sand. The collector was Juan C. Edmundoz. There are present 5 coarse
plates. The tooth belongs possibly to _E. imperator_. As recorded on
another page, teeth of horses have been found in the same situation. If
correctly reported, they belong, with the phosphate, to the Nebraskan
stage of the Pleistocene.
20. _Palma Sola, Manatee County._—There has been sent to the U. S.
National Museum, with other fossils, a fragment of a tooth of _Elephas
columbi_, washed up on the beach at Palma Sola, and found by Mr. Chas.
T. Earle. Besides the elephant tooth were fragments of deer antlers,
several teeth of _Equus complicatus_, a few of _E. leidyi_, one of _E.
littoralis_, and an astragalus and a metapodial of _Bison latifrons?_.
These all belong apparently to early Pleistocene. With them came teeth
of sharks, a beak of a porpoise, and the distal end of a metapodial of a
camel, all probably washed out of Miocene or Pliocene deposits in the
neighborhood.
11. _Sarasota, Sarasota County._—In the American Museum of Natural
History are two fragments of teeth of _Elephas columbi_ collected about
8 miles southeast of Sarasota by Mr. Barnum Brown, in 1911; one consists
of three, the other of two plates. With them were found fragments of
extinct turtles and a dermal plate of an edentate, possibly of
_Chlamytherium_; also several teeth of horses.
18. _Eau Gallie, Brevard County._—Sellards (8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol.
Surv., p. 105) announced that teeth of _Elephas columbi_ and of _Equus
complicatus_ had been found in the Hopkins Drainage Canal.
17. _Fellsmere, St. Lucie County._—Sellards (op. cit., p. 105) reported
a tooth or teeth of _Elephas columbi_ found in a drainage canal at this
place.
12. _Vero, St. Lucie County._—Numerous fragments of teeth of _Elephas
columbi_ have been found at Vero. The geology will be discussed on pages
381 to 383, and a list of the fossil vertebrates that have been found at
Vero will be presented.
13. _Zolfo, Hardee County._—In the American Museum of Natural History
(No. 15546) is the right ramus with the symphysis and one tooth of
_Elephas columbi_. The tooth is quite certainly the hindermost one.
Thirteen plates are present and a number must have worn out and
disappeared from the front. Zolfo is on Peace Creek.
14. _Arcadia, De Soto County._—Numerous remains of _Elephas columbi_
have been found at Arcadia and vicinity, mostly in the course of
dredging for phosphate. The geology of the region is discussed on pages
380–381 and a list presented of fossil vertebrates found there.
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