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
2. _Columbus, Franklin County._—In 1848 (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 1, vol.
_V_, p. 215), Charles Whittlesey stated that bones and teeth of a horse
had been found in fissures or “clay seams” of the Cliff limestone at
Columbus. In 1866 (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. XV, art. 3, p. 16),
the same geologist reported that Joseph Sullivant, of Columbus, had,
many years before, obtained from the crevices of the Cliff lime rock, on
the west side of Scioto River, a number of bones embedded in red clay.
Among these was the tooth of a horse. The crevice had not been open
since the date of the white settlement of the country and it was wholly
filled by the red clay which results from the decomposition of the
limestone. Probably all the remains mentioned by Whittlesey have been
lost.
In 1875 (Cin. Quart. Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. II, p. 154), Klippart wrote
that, in excavating the exterior wall at the Ohio penitentiary, the
warden, Mr. Burr, found the fossil jaw of a horse with the molars in
good condition. He stated the horse must have been one-third larger than
the ordinary horse of to-day.
From Professor Clinton R. Stauffer, of Adelbert College, Cleveland, the
writer received for examination a horse-tooth, labeled: “Catalogue No.
356. Horse-tooth. Given by Robert Cartwright. Found at Columbus, Ohio,
in excavating in a peat-bed for a gas holder in the penitentiary
grounds, October 30, 1873.” It is possible that this is the same tooth
mentioned by Klippart, but probably it is another. The present writer
identifies the tooth as that of _Equus complicatus_. The geological age
is probably approximately that of the Sangamon stage.
3. _Salt Creek, Columbiana County._—In 1866 (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl.,
art. 3, vol. V, p. 16), Charles Whittlesey reported a tooth of a horse
found, about 20 years before, in making the Sandy and Beaver Canal,
along Sandy Creek, in Columbiana County, at a depth not exceeding 12 or
15 feet. Probably the locality was in the southwestern corner of the
county. The sources of Salt Creek are in Hanover Township, not far from
the sources of Little Beaver Creek. From this vicinity Salt Creek flows
westward. This county lies within the Illinoian drift region and the
horse probably lived during the Sangamon stage or earlier.
INDIANA.
(Map 17.)
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