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
8. _Ocala, Marion County._—In 1889 (Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. II, p.
13), Leidy reported the discovery of some fossil vertebrates in a
fissure in a limestone rock near Ocala. Some equine teeth he referred to
_Equus fraternus_ (=_E. leidyi_). The other species were identified as
_Smilodon floridanus_, _Elephas columbi_, and (with some doubt)
_Procamelus minimus_. For conclusions regarding the geology of the
locality see page 378.
9. _Dunnellon, Marion County._—The writer has examined 2 fossil
horse-teeth found near Dunnellon, now the property of the Florida
Geological Survey. No. 1366 is from the Camp Phosphate Company’s Blue
Run mine. It is a first or second upper molar, worn down to a height of
only an inch and having a grinding-surface 26 mm. long and 25 mm. wide
and with a protocone 12 mm. long fore-and-aft. No. 1444, also a first or
second upper molar, has a height of 47 mm., a length of 24 mm., a width
of 23 mm., and a protocone of 11.5 mm. The enamel of the lakes is much
plicated. The teeth are identified as those of _Equus leidyi_. No. 1444
has been figured by Sellards (7th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., p. 111,
fig. 40) and described as dredged from the Schilmann and Bene river
mine, on Withlacoochee River.
On page 376, under the geology of Florida, will be found a list of the
species obtained at Dunnellon and the surrounding region. In this list
is included _Parahippus_ sp. indet. and _Hipparion plicatile_. Dr.
Sellards believes that many species of that list belong to the
Pleistocene. The horse-like species, the rhinoceros, and the camel are
held by him as being older than the Pleistocene.
10. _Hernando, Citrus County._—At this place have been secured
_Gomphotherium floridanum_, _Hipparion_ sp. indet., and _Procamelus_ sp.
indet., all from the phosphate deposits and referred by Sellards to the
Upper Miocene or the Lower Pliocene.
11. _Holder, Citrus County._—In the collection of Dr. H. G. Bystra, of
Holden, is a fossil horse-tooth dredged from Withlacoochee River, in
section 29, township 17 south, range 19 east. The species to which the
tooth belonged has not been determined.
12. _Orange County._—The writer has seen, in the collection of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, an upper right last molar
of Equus, labeled as found in the county named. Nothing more is known by
the writer about the tooth.
13. _Eau Gallie, Brevard County._—In 1916 (8th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol.
Surv., p. 105), Sellards stated that at this place, in the Hopkins
drainage canal, had been collected teeth of _Elephas columbi_ and _Equus
complicatus_.
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