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
4. _Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County._—Mr. William Palmer, of the U. S.
National Museum, had for many years been making collections, mostly of
Miocene vertebrates, along the cliffs at Chesapeake Beach. Among other
fossils found there are some remains of horses, among them one much worn
upper tooth, probably a premolar. The height is only 21 mm., the length
of the grinding-surface 22.4 mm., the width 24 mm. It may be referred
provisionally to _E. leidyi_. Mr. Palmer had also an ungual phalanx and
a cervical vertebra and various other bones and teeth of horses. The
geological situation at the place and the other Pleistocene species
found there will be discussed on pages 347–348.
5. _Cavetown, Washington County._—In his work on the exploration of
Bushy Cavern, near Cavetown, Mr. Charles Peabody (Bull. IV, Dept.
Archæol., Phillips Acad., p. 12) stated that in a limestone quarry,
south of the cave, in the red earth, was found a tooth which J. W.
Gidley identified as probably _Equus complicatus_. In 1920 (Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., vol. LVIII, pp. 96–109), the writer described a collection
made at Cavetown. In this were other remains referred to _Equus
complicatus_. Some fragments of a large tooth were referred with doubt
to _Equus giganteus_.
6. _Corriganville, Allegany County._—In a crevice in a limestone rock,
at a point about 3 miles west of north of Cumberland, taken in a
straight line, J. W. Gidley, in the fall of 1912, made a large
collection of fossil vertebrates. In this collection is a first phalanx
of an extinct horse. The species has not been determined. A list of the
accompanying species, so far as determined, will be presented on pages
349–350.
VIRGINIA.
(Map 17.)
1. _Abingdon, Washington County._—In the U. S. National Museum is the
outer half of an upper hindermost molar of a horse sent, in 1869, by Mr.
Wyndham Robinson. With it were remains of _Mammut americanum_. The
length of the grinding-surface is 30 mm. It belongs pretty certainly to
_Equus complicatus_.
2. _Saltville, Smyth County._—Mr. O. A. Peterson (Ann. Carnegie Mus.,
vol. XI, p. 474) reported the occurrence of an upper left molar of a
horse at Saltville. The species has not been determined. The matter will
be referred to again on pages 352–353.
3. _Ivanhoe, Wythe County._—In 1869 (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. XI,
pp. 171–182), Cope gave an account of the discovery of remains of
numerous fossil vertebrates somewhere along New River, in the county
named. Among these animals were upper and lower milk and permanent
molars of a horse. Cope identified these as belonging doubtfully to
_Equus complicatus_. On page 353, the Pleistocene geology of the region
and a list of the accompanying vertebrates will be presented.
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