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. _Georgetown, District of Columbia._—In 1835 (Med. and Phys.
Researches, p. 267), Dr. Richard Harlan acknowledged the receipt, at the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of remains of a fossil
horse found at Georgetown in constructing the canal along the Potomac.
These were probably teeth and had been sent by Colonel I. J. Abert, of
Washington. They ought now to be in the Academy mentioned. In 1850, R.
W. Gibbes (Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. III, p. 67) presented
before the American Association of Sciences a specimen (a tooth?) which
he said came from the bank of the Potomac and was associated with a
tooth of _Bos_ (_Bison_). How he came to have this was not related, nor
is it certain that it was found near Washington.
3. _Mitchellville, Prince George’s County._—In the U. S. National Museum
are 2 upper teeth, molars or premolars (No. 8813), of a horse found on
his estate northwest from the town named, by Mr. Edward S. Walker. They
were presented to the National Museum by Dr. Edward W. Berry, of John
Hopkins University. These teeth, apparently first and second molars,
seem to belong to an undescribed species. The table gives the height of
the teeth and dimensions of the grinding-surface in millimeters.
┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ Tooth. │ Height. │ Length. │ Width. │ Protocone. │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│M^1 │70 │29.5 │25 │12 │
│M^2 │73 │30 │23 │14.5 │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
The teeth present the appearance of having been little worn.
Measurements of the crown taken about one-third the distance to the base
are as follows:
┌────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────────┐
│ Tooth. │ Length. │ Width. │ Protocone. │
├────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┤
│M^1 │25 │25 │11 │
│M^2 │26 │25.2 │13 │
└────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┘
The teeth are moderately curved, so that the outer face is convex, the
inner concave. Some of the cement is retained and is colored blue with
vivianite. The enamel presents less complication than is usually found
in either _Equus complicatus_ or _E. leidyi_. The dimensions of the
teeth and the narrowness, especially of the second molar, seem to
exclude reference to either of the species mentioned.
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