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. _Bigbone Lick, Boone County._—In the Academy of Natural Sciences at
Philadelphia the writer has seen a number of teeth which belong to
_Elephas columbi_, found at Bigbone Lick. Whether or not these are part
of the collection given by President Thomas Jefferson the writer has not
learned. One of these teeth has been described and figured by the writer
(Geol. Surv. Indiana, vol. XXXVI, p. 737, plate XXII, fig. 1). It is
identified as the upper hindermost milk molar, is wholly unworn, and
shows well the form of the crown before it came into action. In that
stage the roots are almost wholly undeveloped. The length taken at right
angles with the plates is 145 mm. For remarks on the geology of this
locality and a list of the species of vertebrates the reader is referred
to pages 401 to 404.
2. _Mouth of Big Twin Creek, Owen County._—In the American Museum of
Natural History are two fine teeth and a lower jaw, with the ascending
rami missing, found where the creek opens into Kentucky River. From the
finders, Mr. H. B. Ogden and his son, the writer learned that the jaw
was about on a level with the water. They had fastened their boat to it,
thinking it was a stump. The top of the bluff was about 35 feet above
the water. Some other bones were secured, among them a humerus. The
bones were in a mixture of what Mr. Ogden called hardpan and sand. No
certain statements can be made about the geological age of this
specimen. It might well be pre-Wisconsin.
FINDS OF ELEPHAS IMPERATOR IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
(Map 14.)
1. _Charleston, Charleston County._—A number of teeth of _Elephas
imperator_ have been seen by the writer in the collections made in the
vicinity of Charleston.
No. 13557 of the Charleston Museum is a right ramus of the lower jaw
containing the hindermost molar. Sixteen plates are counted, but it is
probable that about two are missing from the front. There is no
indication that there was another tooth behind it. The exact locality of
discovery is not known. In the Frost collection is a part (8 plates) of
a lower right last molar, which must be referred to this species. Seen
on the inner face are only four ridge-plates in a 100–mm. line. In the
collection of Rev. Robert Wilson is a fragment of a molar of _E.
imperator_. The four plates present occupy 100 mm. of the length of the
tooth.
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