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
WISCONSIN.
(Map 16.)
1. _Stockholm, Pepin County._—All that is known regarding the occurrence
of an elephant at this place was published by Professor N. H. Winchell
in 1910 (Bull. Minn. Acad. Sci., vol. IV, p. 417), as follows: “Capt.
Jos. Buisson stated that a mammoth tooth was found opposite Lake City,
near Stockholm, on the shore of Lake Pepin.” The tooth may have been
that of a mastodon.
MARYLAND AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
(Map 16.)
1. _Upper Marlboro, Prince George’s County._—In B. L. Miller’s
geological report on this county (Maryland Geol. Surv., 1911, pp. 125,
126) it is stated that a right humerus of a mammoth, as determined by J.
W. Gidley, had been found at the road crossing of Cabin Branch, near the
western branch of Patuxent River. The bone was sent to Georgetown
University, Washington, D. C.
2. _Washington._—In the Prince George’s County volume of the Maryland
Geological Survey, 1911, page 123, Dr. B. L. Miller stated that a tooth
of _Elephas americanus_ (_E. primigenius_ probably) had been found in
Wicomico materials in the pits of a Washington brick company, at a depth
of 35 feet. The brickyard was bounded by Florida and Trinidad avenues
and the Bladensburg turnpike. What has become of this tooth is not
known, nor can one be certain that the tooth was not that of _E.
columbi_. It may with safety be referred to an early stage of the
Pleistocene.
VIRGINIA.
(Map 16.)
1. _Warrenton, Fauquier County._—In 1831, Richard Harlan (Monthly Amer.
Jour. Geol., vol. I, pp. 58–67), in a letter to the editor, stated that
a “Dr. W.” of the village presented him with a fossil molar tooth of an
elephant found in that vicinity. Nothing more is known of this specimen.
WEST VIRGINIA.
(Map 16.)
1. _Wheeling, Ohio County._—The geologist J. W. Foster (Proc. Amer.
Assoc. Adv. Sci., 10th meeting, p. 160) reported that Alfred Sears had
deposited in the Smithsonian Institution some elephant remains obtained
4.5 miles below Wheeling Creek. They were found on the second bottom or
terrace and at a depth of 17 feet from the surface. Within a few feet of
this place was an Indian mound. When the mound was built, 17 feet of
sediment had accumulated over the elephant remains. One can, however,
hardly refer the bones to a time farther back than the Wisconsin. A
record in the U. S. National Museum shows that Mr. Sears, in 1852, sent
a tusk and a tooth of an elephant to Washington. These were doubtless
placed in the collection of the Old National Institute. If they were
transferred to the Smithsonian Institution the record has apparently
been lost.
NORTH CAROLINA.
(Maps 16, 39.)
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