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. _Wellsburg, Chemung County._—In 1793 (Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, Sci.,
vol. II, pt. 1, p. 164), Timothy Edwards reported a horn or bone of some
animal had been found in Chemung, or Tyoga, River, about 12 miles from
Tyoga Point. Mr. F. W. Ashley, of the Library of Congress, informed the
writer that Tyoga Point was a former name of the present town of Athens,
Pennsylvania. Whether the tusk was really found in Pennsylvania or in
New York is uncertain, nor is it any more certain that the tusk was that
of an elephant and not of a mastodon. The fragment was 6 feet 9 inches
long, with a circumference of 21 inches at the base and 15 inches at the
other extremity. It was estimated to have formed an arc 10 or 12 feet
long of a semicircle.
Mather, in 1843 (Geol. 4th Dist., pp. 233, 636), stated that bones of
both the mastodon and the elephant had been found in Orange County. On
page 44 of the same volume he stated that bones supposed to belong to an
elephant had been found 2 miles west of Greenville, in Greene County.
Hall regarded them as belonging to a mastodon. The case is doubtful.
PENNSYLVANIA.
(Map 16.)
1. _Chambersburg, Franklin County._—In 1806 (Phila. Med. and Phys.
Jour., vol. II, pt. 1, p. 157), Dr. B. S. Barton reported remains of a
mammoth found at Chambersburg.
2. _Pittsburgh, Allegheny County._—In 1875 (Proc. Acad. Natural Sci.,
Phila., p. 121), Leidy exhibited drawings of an elephant tooth, dredged
up at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at
Pittsburgh. The tooth was nearly entire and weighed slightly less than
16 pounds. Leidy referred the tooth to _Elephas americanus_, but whether
it was _E. primigenius_ or _E. columbi_ can not be determined.
3. _Meadville, Crawford County._—In the Geologist, of London, volume V,
1862, on page 431, it was stated that Mr. A. B. Ruhmond, of Meadville,
had reported to the Scientific American the discovery of mammoth remains
in the excavation of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad at French
Creek. No further information was furnished. In this case the remains
might have been those of a mastodon.
4. _Girard, Erie County._—In the Erie Public Museum are three tusks,
said to have been found near Girard; one is about 4 feet long; another
somewhat longer. They are slender and probably belonged to _Elephas
primigenius_, but there is no certainty about this.
OHIO.
(Maps 16, 36.)
1. _Little Salt Creek, Jackson County._—Somewhere along this creek was
discovered the lower jaw and its teeth, to which was first given the
name _Elephas jacksoni_. The creek, with its branches, gathers up the
waters of the central part of the county and leaves the county at its
northwest corner.
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