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
4. _Ross County._—In 1866 (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. XV, art. 3,
p. 15), Charles Whittlesey reported he had seen remains of elephant in
alluvial muck in Ross County, at an elevation of about 50 feet above the
bottom land of the Scioto Valley. The locality was no more exactly
defined and one can not determine whether it is within the Wisconsin
area, that of the Illinoian, or that not glaciated. According to
Leverett (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv. XLI, p. 259), what appears to be an
Illinoian terrace along Scioto River opposite Chillicothe stands 120
feet above the river, while the Wisconsin terrace is 60 feet lower. The
elephant remains were probably on the Wisconsin terrace.
5. _Cincinnati, Hamilton County._—In 1843 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol.
XII, p. 127), Lyell wrote that both elephant and mastodon teeth had been
found in the gravelly beds of the higher terraces on the right bank of
the river at Cincinnati. In his “Travels in North America” (vol. II,
1845, p. 59), Lyell was more definite in his statement. He stated that
near the edge of the higher terrace, in digging a gravel-pit, which he
saw open at the end of Sixth street, a tooth of _Elephas primigenius_
had been discovered not long before. Dr. E. O. Ulrich informs the writer
that this was probably at the eastern end of the street. Inasmuch as all
the elephant remains of our country were at that time referred to _E.
primigenius_, it is doubtful whether the specimen belonged to this
species or to _E. columbi_. Professor N. M. Fenneman writes that the
“higher terrace” here mentioned can be nothing more than the terrace on
which the lower city stands, namely, the Wisconsin outwash. He knows of
no fragments of Illinoian terrace there.
6. _Fort Jefferson, Darke County._—In 1878 (Geol. Surv. Ohio, vol. III,
pt. 1, p. 508), Mr. A. C. Lindemuth wrote that Dr. G. Miesse had in his
collection an almost perfect skeleton of a mammoth, as well as portions
of a mastodon, both of which were found in the peat deposits of Mud
Creek “prairie.” This mastodon is doubtless the one described on page 73
and preserved in the Greenville Public Library. Where the elephant
remains are the writer does not know. The locality appears to be in
Neave Township (township 11 north, range 2 east).
7. _Circleville, Pickaway County._—In 1834 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XXV,
p. 256), in an unsigned article, the geologist S. P. Hildreth told of
having a tooth of an elephant which had been found in gravelly diluvium
back of Circleville. This meant probably somewhere east of the town.
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