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. _Wade, Alachua County._—The writer has seen at Tallahassee, 4 fossil
_Equus_ teeth, found at this place. One is No. 1470 of the Florida
Geological Survey and labeled as found in the Buttgenbach “cummer” mine.
It is a lower left second premolar, 40 mm. high, 31 mm. long, and 14.5
mm. wide, not including the cement present. Another tooth, No. 1462,
from Buttgenbach’s river mine, near Wade, is the hindermost left molar
of the lower jaw, 32 mm. long, and 13 mm. wide in front. It is thought
these teeth belonged to _Equus leidyi_.
5. _Newberry, Alachua County._—This is the locality mentioned by Dall
(Bull. 84, U. S. Geol. Survey, p. 128) under the name of Hallowells; but
he mentioned no fossils from this place. In the Report of the Florida
Geological Survey, volume v, page 58, Sellards stated that a species of
_Hipparion_ had been discovered in the hard phosphate. In the eighth
report of the same survey, on page 42, the present writer described a
specifically undetermined species of _Parahippus_, also from the
phosphate deposits. On page 94 Dr. Sellards reported _Equus littoralis_
and _Odocoileus_ from Newberry. The writer has identified as _Equus
littoralis_, a horse represented by a lower left hindermost molar, found
at Newberry.
6. _Archer, Alachua County._—Dr. Joseph Leidy, in 1885 (Proc. Acad. Nat.
Sci. Phila., pp. 32, 33), described from this place a rhinoceros,
_Rhinoceros proterus_, and _Hippotherium ingenuum_. In 1886 (ibid., pp.
11, 12) he again mentioned these species and described in addition to
them _Mastodon floridanus_ and 3 species of camels which he referred to
the genus _Auchenia_. In a list furnished by Leidy to Dr. W. H. Dall
(Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., No. 84, p. 129), there are listed, besides the
species mentioned, _Megatherium_ and _Cervus virginianus?_, all found in
the Alachua clays and usually referred to the Lower Miocene or Upper
Pliocene. In the list presented on page 375, under the geology of
Florida, a species of tapir is added. At present the writer assigns the
deposits known as the Alachua clays to lowermost Pleistocene.
7. _Williston, Levy County._—In the American Museum of Natural History,
New York, is an upper last molar of _Equus_, found at the place named
and presented by E. Mixon. The enamel is not much plicated. The size of
the tooth indicated that it belonged to _E. leidyi_. In the list of
vertebrates unearthed at Mixon’s (near Williston), furnished by Leidy to
Dall, were included two species of _Hippotherium_, _H. ingenuum_ and _H.
plicatile_. These species are now referred to the genus _Hipparion_. _H.
plicatile_ was described by Leidy in 1887 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
p. 309). A list of the species at present known to have been obtained
here is to be found on page 375 under the geology of Florida. They have
all been found in the Alachua clays and are usually regarded as
belonging to the late Tertiary.
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