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
14. _Kingsford, Polk County._—In the U. S. National Museum are 3
horse-teeth collected in 1903 by Mr. Juan C. Edmundoz, from some of the
phosphate mines in the region about Kingsford. Although most of the
fossils from these mines have been supposed to belong to the late
Miocene or early Pliocene, these horse-teeth are certainly of
Pleistocene age. One tooth, No. 8620, is an upper right true molar,
either the first or the second. It is worn down to about half its
original length. The length of the grinding-surface is 25 mm.; its width
is 26 mm. The enamel surrounding the lakes is extremely complicated.
Another tooth, No. 8619, is a right hindermost molar with the protocone
missing. A third tooth, No. 8618, is a little-worn lower molar, probably
the second. The height is 83 mm., the length 25 mm., width 14 mm. The
teeth are to be referred to _Equus leidyi_.
15. _Brewster, Polk County._—In volume VIII of the Florida Geological
Survey, pages 95, 96, Dr. Sellards states that from the phosphate mines
at Brewster have been obtained teeth of _Hipparion minor_. A list of the
associated species is to be found in the discussion of the Pleistocene
geology of Florida on page 380.
16. _Alafia River, Hillsboro County._—In the American Museum of Natural
History, New York, is a collection of 10 teeth of _Equus_, said to have
been dredged in Alafia River. Some belong to _E. leidyi_. One, a right
third or fourth upper premolar worn down to a height of 40 mm., has
still a length of 30 mm. and a width of 27 mm.; apparently it belongs to
_E. complicatus_. The writer has described an extinct species of
box-tortoise, _Terrapene putnami_ (Fossil Turtles, N. A., p. 360)
dredged by Professor F. W. Putnam in Alafia River about a mile above its
entrance into Tampa Bay. With the bone, which forms the type of the
species, were dredged a peripheral bone of a _Testudo_, possibly _T.
crassiscutata_, and remains of horses and tapirs. It is pretty certain
that the 10 teeth above mentioned were secured by Professor Putnam.
In Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, is a part of a lower right
premolar of _Equus_, apparently _E. leidyi_, said to have been found
near Tampa Bay.
17. _Palmetto, Manatee County._—At several places about the mouth of
Manatee River have been found relics of fossil horses. Mr. Ernest
Leitzel, of Palmetto, sent to the U. S. National Museum for
identification some teeth found in Manatee River, others in Terra Ceia
Bay. The teeth are all well fossilized; some are upper teeth, others
belong below. The writer regards them as belonging to _Equus leidyi_.
In the same museum are 2 lower right true molars, a second and a third,
sent from Manatee by Mr. N. B. Moore. The teeth are moderately worn. The
length of the grinding-surface of the hindermost molar is only 23 mm.,
the width 12 mm. They must have belonged to a small horse and are
referred to _Equus littoralis_.
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