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. _Vanderburg County._—John Collett (7th Ann. Report Indiana Geol.
Surv., pp. 245, 246) stated that mammoth remains had been found in
Vanderburg County. Nothing more is known about these.
2. _Shoals, Martin County._—Mr. M. F. Mathers, of Orleans, Indiana,
informed the writer that in 1880, while at Shoals fishing, a part of the
upper jaw of an elephant, with two large teeth in it, was found, in
White River below the shoals. Mr. Mathers assures the writer that the
teeth were of a kind very different from those of a mastodon found on
his place. He did not know what became of the specimen.
E. T. Cox (2d Ann. Rep. Indiana Geol. Surv., 1871, p. 103) stated that
remains of the mammoth and of the mastodon had been found in Martin
County embedded in marsh clay resting on the drift. The only drift in
the county is the Illinoian. These animals must have lived after the
Illinoian stage; but not necessarily immediately after.
ON AREA COVERED BY ILLINOIAN DRIFT.
3. _Vigo County._—John Collett, in 1881 (2d Ann. Rep. Bur. Statist. and
Geol., 1880, p. 385), stated that elephant remains had been found in
Vigo County.
4. _Gosport, Owen County._—In 1859, Professor T. A. Wylie (Amer. Jour.
Sci., vol. XXVIII, p. 283) gave an account of the discovery of parts of
the skeleton of an elephant in the bank of White River, about a mile
southeast of Gosport. Two tusks, four teeth, and some fragmentary parts
of the skeleton were exhumed, from a bed of sand, overlain by 8 feet of
stiff bluish clay. The sand appeared to rest on bed-rock. One tusk had a
length of about 9 feet and a diameter of 8 inches, and this diameter was
maintained to near the tip. The teeth were evidently the second and
third molars, probably of the upper jaw. The largest molar measured 11
inches on the longest diagonal and had 20 plates. “The distance between
the plates and the interval between the pairs is about one-fourth inch.”
This specimen was probably taken to the University of Indiana and
destroyed in a fire. It seems most likely that the remains belonged to
_E. primigenius_. They were apparently buried in outwash materials from
the Wisconsin ice-sheet.
17. _Wailesboro, Bartholomew County._—In 1902 (Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci.,
1901, p. 247), J. J. Edwards, a physician, reported a tooth of _Elephas
primigenius_ found in a gravel-pit 0.5 mile south of Wailesboro at a
depth of 7 feet. The tooth weighed 9 pounds. It was afterwards destroyed
in a fire. Although this was quite certainly the tooth of an elephant,
the identification of the species may be doubted.
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