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
In 1877 (Geol. Surv. Kentucky, vol. III, p. 79), the same writer stated
that a molar tooth of _Elephas primigenius_ had been found in the city
of Newport, about 25 feet above high-water mark and at a depth of 40
feet. It is not improbable that the two accounts refer to the same
specimen.
3. _Bluelick Springs, Nicholas County._—In the collection of Mr. Thomas
W. Hunter, made at this place, were several much water-worn teeth of
elephants, the species not determined.
4. _Eminence, Henry County._—The geologist David D. Owen, in 1857 (3d
Geol. Surv. Kentucky, p. 103), reported that bones and teeth of the
mammoth had, at times, been found here. They do not appear to have been
preserved.
FINDS OF PLEISTOCENE EQUIDÆ IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
MASSACHUSETTS.
(Map 17.)
_Gay Head, Martha’s Vineyard._—In 1900 (Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. XI,
p. 459, plate XLII, fig. 2), J. B. Woodworth reported finding an
astragalus of a horse in an osseous conglomerate, regarded as belonging
to the Miocene. It was identified by Professor H. F. Osborn, who
remarked that it resembled closely the same bone of some Pleistocene
horses. From this conglomerate have been obtained bones of whales,
supposedly also a skull of a walrus. While the size of the astragalus
suggests more that of a Pleistocene horse, it is possible that there was
some large Miocene equid that lived there. The present writer is
inclined to believe it will be found that the astragalus came from one
of the older Pleistocene deposits recognized as present at Gay Head.
NEW YORK.
(Map 17.)
1. _Throg’s Neck, New York County._—In 1866 (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl.,
vol. XV, art. 3, p. 16), Charles Whittlesey stated he had a tooth of a
horse, taken from the compact marine drift at Throg’s Neck. It was
obtained by J. A. Bailey from excavations at Fort Schuyler, 18 feet
below the surface.
According to Folio No. 83 of the U. S. Geological Survey, Harlem
Quadrangle, Throg’s Neck is occupied by till which usually thinly
covers, or leaves exposed, the underlying Hudson schist; Salisbury gives
an account of the drift on page 14 of the folio cited. At the depth
indicated the tooth was probably lying in pre-Wisconsin deposits; and
taking into consideration the geological age of other horse remains, one
may reasonably conclude that the tooth at Throg’s Neck was of a horse
that lived during the middle or early Pleistocene. That there may be
materials of a pre-Wisconsin stage underlying the surface drift at
Throg’s Neck is indicated by Woodworth’s discovery (Bull. 48, N. Y.
State Mus., p. 626, plate I) of deposits older than the Wisconsin along
Hempstead Bay, Long Island.
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