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. _Sixteen miles Southeast of Newbern, on the Neuse River, in Pamlico
County._—In a locality on the left bank of Neuse River, about 16 miles
below Newbern, bones of _Equus_ and various other animals were first
found long ago, apparently by Nuttall. T. A. Conrad, in 1838 (Fossils
Medial Tert. U. S., p. X), spoke of great numbers of bones of horse,
mastodon, etc. Harlan (Med. Phys. Res., p. 267) says that Conrad
possessed specimens from the locality. Lydekker (Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit.
Mus. part 3, p. 89) states that there is in that museum an upper
cheek-tooth from Newbern. So far as the writer knows, none of the teeth
found here has been figured or accurately described.
On pages 358–359 will be found a list of the vertebrate fossils
collected at Newbern and a consideration of the geology.
3. _Greenville, Pitt County._—In 1852, E. Emmons (Geol. Surv. North
Carolina, p. 106) said he had procured a grinder of a horse at
Greenville, in the sandy stratum just above the Miocene marl. In 1858
(Geol. Surv. North Carolina Agric., Eastern Counties, p. 197, fig. 21),
the same writer figured an incisor tooth found in the Miocene of Pitt
County. Conrad (Amer. Jour. Sci. 1871, vol. I, p. 468) spoke of the
finding of black and mineralized teeth of a horse, which he regarded as
_E. fraternus_, in Miocene marl. Leidy (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
1871, p. 113) reported on the upper molar tooth which Conrad had found.
He regarded it as occurring accidentally in the Miocene and as belonging
to _E. complicatus_; but as the tooth was injured, Leidy thought it
might belong to _Hipparion_. In the collection of the Academy of Natural
Sciences at Philadelphia the writer has seen quite certainly the same
tooth. It appears to be an upper premolar, the third or the fourth. It
has a height of about 50 mm. and a length of 30 mm. The inner half has
been split off. It is that of _E. complicatus_.
4. _Plymouth, Washington County._—E. Emmons, in 1858 (North Carolina
Geol. Surv. Agric., Eastern Counties, p. 197, figs. 19, 20), figured 2
teeth, an upper left molar or premolar and a hindermost left molar,
which had been washed up on the beach at Plymouth. This place is on the
south bank of Roanoke River. Judging from Emmons’s figures, one must
conclude that these teeth belong to _Equus leidyi_.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
(Map 17.)
1. _Beaufort, Beaufort County._—In the museum of Rutgers College, at New
Brunswick, New Jersey, the writer has seen 6 teeth of _Equus_, presented
by Mr. G. U. Shepard jr., and obtained on Coosaw River; but no more
detailed information has been furnished. In the Charleston Museum is a
tooth of _Equus complicatus_ which was found by Mr. Earle Sloan, in
Coosaw River.
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