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
2. _Hamilton, Wentworth County._—In 1904 (Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol.
XV, p. 352), Coleman mentioned the finding of mammoth remains in a
tunnel excavated through Burlington Heights, near Hamilton, and in a
gravel-pit about a mile farther westward. A tusk and some bones were
secured, but nothing by means of which the species may be identified. On
page 147 is described the jaw of _E. columbi_, discovered at Burlington
Heights. Logan (Geol. Canada, 1863, pp. 966, 967) illustrated the jaw
just mentioned by two figures, 496, 498, of the symphysis of an
elephant, found at Hamilton. Possibly this bone belonged to _E.
primigenius_.
3. _Toronto, York County._—In 1895 (Jour. Geol., vol. III, p. 641),
Coleman reported that in 1894 a tooth of a mammoth had been found on Don
River, north of Toronto, at a point where the stream flows over the
middle till of the region and cuts away banks showing stratified sand
and in some cases the upper till. The tooth may, therefore, belong to
the interglacial beds, but possibly to the late glacial. In 1901 (Jour.
Geol., vol. IX, p. 291), the same author indicated the possible
occurrence of mammoth or mastodon in the Don Valley beds. This was
recorded in 1900 (Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., p. 330). On page 300
(Jour. Geol., vol. IX) it is stated that an ulna of a mammoth or
mastodon had been found in interglacial beds in Toronto, possibly in
deposits representing the cold-climate Scarboro beds; but as it showed
glacial scratches it may have been lying on the surface at the time of
the Wisconsin ice advance. Even in the latter case the bone can, it
would seem, be referred to an interglacial stage.
In 1899 (Ottawa Naturalist, vol. XII, p. 194), Coleman stated that teeth
of mammoths had been discovered in a bar, a part of the Iroquois beach
at York, east of Toronto.
VERMONT.
(Map 16.)
1. _Richmond, Chittenden County._—Edward Hitchcock (Geol. Surv. Vermont,
1861, p. 176) stated that in 1858 remains of an elephant had been found
in Richmond, but no details were furnished. One of the teeth is still
preserved in the University of Vermont. The writer regards the species
as indeterminable.
NEW YORK.
(Map 16.)
1. _Seneca Lake._—In 1858 (Geol. Surv. North Carolina, East. Counties,
p. 200), Emmons stated that a tooth belonging to the elephant had been
taken from the beach of Seneca Lake. When this happened, exactly where,
and what was done with the tooth, the present writer does not know.
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