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
Leidy (Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. II, p. 22, plate VII) figured a very
large tooth found at Arcadia. It has 27 plates and is 400 mm. long.
There are 6 plates in a 100–mm. line. This tooth is in the collection of
the Wagner Institute in Philadelphia. Leidy recorded also a part of a
last molar, now in the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia.
In the collection of the Public Museum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an
upper, left, hindermost molar labeled as found in the phosphate beds of
Peace Creek, probably at Arcadia. It was presented by Mr. Ad. Meinecke.
There are 6 plates and a little more in a 100–mm. line. Teeth, Nos. 319
and 1991, from Arcadia, are in the U. S. National Museum. No. 1571 of
the Florida Geological Survey was found 6 miles north of Arcadia.
15. _Tourner’s, Glades County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No. 8088)
is a part of a tooth of _Elephas columbi_ sent by J. M. Purvis,
Tourner’s, Florida. It was reported as having been collected on the
Caloosahatchee River at the place named. This place (spelled also
Turner’s) appears to be near Thompson’s and probably in township 43
south, range 29 east. This tooth appears to be the penultimate milk
molar; there are 9 ridge-plates in a 100–mm. line. The enamel is thin
and much folded.
Leidy (Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. II, p. 23) recorded the discovery of a
last molar tooth of _E. columbi_ at some point on the river mentioned.
The tooth is in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Dall
(Bull. 84, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 129) on the authority of Leidy stated
that _Bison latifrons_ and _Equus fraternus_ had been found in the
Pliocene beds along this river. It is probable that he used _B.
latifrons_ in a wide sense. Sellards (8th Rep., p. 102) shows that at
least the elephant and the horse were from the Pleistocene.
19. _Palm Beach, Palm Beach County._—Sellards, in his Eighth Annual
Report, page 105, stated that there had been secured from the Palm Beach
Canal for the drainage of the Everglades, teeth of _Elephas columbi_, as
well as those of _Equus complicatus_ and _Mammut americanum_, and a
femur of a species of _Bison_.
KENTUCKY.
(Map 12.)
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