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. _Staunton, Augusta County._—From Dr. W. F. Deekens, surgeon dentist
of Staunton, a tooth of a horse found somewhere in that vicinity, was
sent to the U. S. National Museum. It had been found in a limestone
quarry, 70 feet below the surface, in a narrow stratum of clay. Probably
the tooth had been carried down into a crevice in the limestone by a
current of water. The length of the grinding-surface is 31 mm. The
arrangement of the enamel folds is simple, but the tooth had only just
begun to be worn. The narrowness of the tooth is remarkable and it may
belong to an unrecognized species.
5. _Denniston, Halifax County._—From Mr. G. W. Joyner, living near this
place, the U. S. National Museum in 1920 received a left lower
grinding-tooth of a horse, found by the donor in a little stream on his
farm.
WEST VIRGINIA.
(Map 17.)
1. _Point Pleasant, Mason County._—From Dr. L. V. Guthrie,
superintendent of the West Virginia Asylum, at Huntington, the U. S.
National Museum received for examination a horse-tooth dredged up with
gravel from Ohio River at Point Pleasant. The writer has not been able
to distinguish this tooth (either the last or the next to the last
premolar) from that of _Equus niobrarensis_. If further discoveries
confirm this provisional determination, the known range of the species
will be greatly extended. The tooth has been deposited in the U. S.
National Museum by the owner, Captain H. S. Wert, of Point Pleasant. The
presence of this tooth proves that there are, somewhere not far away,
some early Pleistocene deposits, probably in some high terrace along the
Ohio, such as are found in abundance along the upper part of the river
and its affluents.
NORTH CAROLINA.
(Maps 17, 39.)
1 _Elizabethtown, Bladen County._—The geologist E. Emmons (North
Carolina Geol. Surv., 1858, p. 197, fig. 18) described and figured an
upper left second or third molar tooth of a horse which he called _Equus
caballus_, the domestic animal. It, with a tooth from the lower jaw, had
been found in a bed of Miocene age at Elizabethtown. Whatever may have
been the age of the marl-bed, the horse lived during the Pleistocene.
Conrad, however (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XLVII, 1869, p. 359), insisted
on the Miocene age of the animal. The same tooth was, in 1860 (Holmes’s
Post-Pl. Foss. South Carolina, plate XV, fig. 16), figured by Leidy and
referred to _E. fraternus_. It is now known as _E. leidyi_. Miller
(North Carolina Geol. and Econom. Surv., vol. III, p. 248) points out
that patches of Miocene marl do occur in the vicinity of Elizabethtown.
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