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
3. _Port Kennedy, Montgomery County._—As long ago as 1871 (Amer. Jour.
Sci., ser. 3, vol. I, pp. 235, 384), Wheatley announced the discovery of
2 unidentified species of horses in the great bone cave at the place
named. They were associated with the remains of 40 other species of
vertebrates, besides many insects. In 1899 (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.,
Phila., ser. 2, vol. II, pp. 193–267, plates XVIII-XXI), Cope described
the materials collected up to that time from the same cave. Of horses he
recorded 2 forms, which he named _Equus fraternus fraternus_ and _E.
fraternus pectinatus_. He was inclined to believe the latter would prove
to be a distinct species. It is not certain whether this conclusion was
correct; but if not a species, it is probably a subspecies of _Equus
complicatus_. The teeth referred to _E. fraternus fraternus_ are pretty
certainly those of _E. complicatus_. Of this species Cope had a decayed
skull of a young animal with teeth, besides a considerable number of
other teeth and some bones of the skeleton. The geological relations of
these remains and those of the other species will be discussed on pages
311 to 320.
4. _Rutherford, Dauphin County._—In 1868 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1868,
p. 195), Leidy described a horse-tooth, loaned him by Mr. W. Lorenz and
found somewhere between Rutherford and Highspire. It was met in a
depression 6 feet deep and 20 feet across, filled with diluvium. Leidy
thought the tooth might have belonged to a contemporary of the mastodon,
but this was equally improbable. All the cement was dissolved from the
tooth, and the latter was stained by iron, but not petrified. It was an
upper second true molar. It has probably suffered the fate of such
specimens as are retained in private hands.
5. _Frankstown, Blair County._—From Mr. O. A. Peterson, of the Carnegie
Museum, Pittsburgh, the writer learns that some part of an unidentified
species of horse has been found in the collection made some years ago at
Frankstown. For a list of the species page 321 may be consulted.
OHIO.
(Maps 17, 36.)
1. _Cincinnati, Hamilton County._—In 1895 (Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist.,
vol. XVII, p. 217), Mr. Seth Hayes recorded the discovery of a molar
tooth and a vertebra of a horse, identified as _Equus fraternus_. It was
met with in exhuming the remains of the “Shaw mastodon” in Hyde Park, in
the northeastern part of Cincinnati. The details of the exhumation are
given in the description of the mastodon. The geological age of these
animals dates probably from about the Sangamon stage. The writer has not
been able to examine the horse remains referred to. It is probable that
the tooth belonged to _Equus complicatus_.
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