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
9. _Noblesville, Hamilton County._—John Collett, in the report cited in
the last paragraph, on page 385, gave a detailed account of the finding
of some remains of a mammoth 4 miles southeast of Noblesville, on the
farm of John H. Caylor. The locality is given as on the east half of the
northeast quarter of section 16, township 18, range 9 west; but
evidently the range is 5 east. In the summer of 1880 a large ditch was
being made for the drainage of a swamp, situated, according to Collett,
in a valley 20 rods wide and extending several miles from southeast to
nearly northwest. The higher land on each side is glacial drift and
contains gravel and large boulders. The ditch was 4 feet deep, 3 feet of
which was in recent peat or bog, and the bottom extended down 1 foot
into fine blue clay. In this clay were found two well-preserved teeth of
a mammoth, a hip bone, a thigh bone, and the tips of two vertebræ. These
bones and teeth were scattered along the line of the ditch a distance of
80 feet and in a width of less than 2 feet. What became of these bones
we are not informed. According to Leverett’s map, this region is covered
by Wisconsin ground moraine. I am informed by Professor Leverett that
the valley mentioned by Collett was probably originally a subglacial
drainage channel.
15. _Muncie, Delaware County._—M. G. Mock, of Houston, Texas, formerly
of Muncie, Indiana, showed the writer a sketch of an elephant tooth, a
lower hindermost molar, with considerable parts of the skeleton, found
on the farm of S. N. Priddy, July 1, 1895. The tooth was 12 inches long
and 5 inches across. This belonged probably to _Elephas columbi_, but of
this there is no certainty.
10. _Dora, Wabash County._—Elrod and Benedict, in 1892 (17th Ann. Rep.
Indiana Geol. Surv., p. 241), reported two large teeth of a mammoth
found on the farm of John H. Peffley, in the east half of the southwest
quarter of section 18, township 27, range 8 east. The writers of the
report saw one of the teeth and identified it as _Elephas primigenius_;
but probably they did not consider the differences between this species
and _E. columbi_.
IN AREA NORTH OF WABASH RIVER.
11. _Jasper County._—John Collett (12th Ann. Rep. Indiana Geol. Surv.,
p. 73) reported that mammoth remains had been found in Jasper County.
Nothing was added.
12. _Pleasant Township, Wabash County._—Elrod and Benedict, as noted
above, state on their page 240 that some years previously mammoth bones
had been discovered while throwing up an embankment for a bridge across
Silver Creek. The bones were found under 5 feet of muck. We have no
assurance that these bones were not those of a mastodon. It was reported
to Elrod and Benedict that some were in Wabash College, at
Crawfordsville. On this same creek, near Laketon, were found some
mastodon remains, for which see page 98. This township, in the
northwestern corner of Wabash County, lies on the great moraine which
runs along the north side of Eel River.
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