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. _16 miles below Newbern, on Neuse River, in Pamlico County._—Harlan,
in 1842 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XLIII, p. 143), stated that he had seen,
in the collection made by Nuttall on Neuse River, remains of an
elephant. Elisha Mitchell, in the same year (Elements of Geol., p. 128),
stated that there was in the cabinet of the University of North Carolina
a tooth of an elephant from the locality mentioned. Possibly the tooth
referred by Croom (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XXVII, 1835, p. 170) to the
mastodon and which was 7 inches wide and 9.5 inches deep, was really
that of an elephant. Were it not for the fact that _Elephas primigenius_
has been found in this region of North Carolina, one might, with
confidence, refer the tooth found below Newbern to _E. columbi_. For
other species found at this place the reader may consult pages 358 to
359.
2. _Harlowe, Carteret County._—Elisha Mitchell (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol.
XIII, 1827, p. 347) stated that in digging the Clubfoot and Harlowe
Canal remains of both the mastodon and the elephant had been found.
Nothing more definite was communicated. The probability is that the
animal was _Elephas columbi_.
3. _Duplin County._—At the meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1850, Dr. R. W.
Gibbes reported that he had obtained a part of a molar of an elephant
found somewhere in Duplin County. He spoke of its resemblance in
narrowness and in thinness of plates to a tooth found in Vermont and
exhibited by Agassiz. Possibly it belonged to _Elephas primigenius_.
FLORIDA.
(Map 16.)
1. _Wakulla Springs, Wakulla County._—In the collection of the Florida
Geological Survey is a right tibia of an elephant reported found at the
place named. The measurements shown in the accompanying table were
secured. For comparison the dimensions of the tibia of the great
_Elephas primigenius_ in the American Museum of Natural History at New
York are presented.
_Measurement of tibias, in millimeters._
┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┐
│ │Wakulla Springs│ │
│ │ elephant. │E. primigenius.│
├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│Total length │ 813│ 735│
│Greatest width across upper end │ 266│ 245│
│Fore-and-aft diameter at middle of │ │ │
│ length │ 106│ 100│
│Side-to-side diameter at middle of │ │ │
│ length │ 132│ 106│
│Greatest width across lower end │ 215│ 205│
└─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┘
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