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
From Mr. Charles T. Earle the U. S. National Museum received in February
1921, several teeth of _Equus leidyi_, 2 of _E. complicatus_, and 1 of
_E. littoralis_, which had been washed up on the beach at Palma Sola,
about 10 miles below Palmetto. With these teeth came parts of antlers of
a deer, a part of a metacarpal and an astragalus of _Bison latifrons?_,
a part of a beak of a platanistid porpoise, a part of a tooth of
_Elephas columbi_, a fragment or two of a terrapin (_Trachemys_ sp.
indet.), a fragment of the carapace of a soft-shelled turtle, and teeth
of sharks. The porpoise and the sharks, also a part of a metapodial of a
camel, may belong to Miocene or Pliocene deposits near the locality.
18. _Sarasota Bay, Sarasota County._—The region a little further south
than Manatee River has furnished remains of extinct horses. Sellards
(7th Ann. Rep. Florida Geol. Surv., p. 112, fig. 47) has figured a lower
tooth of a large horse, found by Mr. Joseph Willcox, at White Beach, on
Sarasota Bay. Inasmuch as the fore-and-aft dimension of the tooth is 30
mm., it very probably belonged to _Equus complicatus_. Mr. Willcox has
submitted to the writer 2 large lower teeth, regarded as belonging to
the species just mentioned. Another lower tooth, apparently a third or
fourth lower premolar, found on the same beach, has the fore-and-aft
dimension only 26 mm., the width 15 mm. This is referred to _Equus
leidyi_. At Blackburn’s place, 12 miles south of White Beach, Mr.
Willcox secured a tooth of _Equus_ apparently little worn. The height is
83 mm., the length at the summit 28 mm., but a little further down only
26 mm.; the width 12 mm. This tooth is to be referred to _Equus leidyi_.
In the American Museum of Natural History, New York, are 7 teeth of
_Equus_, collected in 1911 by Mr. Barnum Brown at a place 8 miles
southeast of Sarasota. They appear to belong to the Florida horse of
medium size, _Equus leidyi_.
19. _Calvenia, Hardee County._—In the U. S. National Museum (No. 4838)
is an upper right last molar of a horse labeled as found near the mouth
of Charlie Apopka Creek and as having been presented by Captain Le Baron
through L. C. Johnson. The tooth belongs to _Equus leidyi_. Another
tooth found at the same place, at the same time (December 16, 1883), and
presented in the same way, is a lower grinder. The height is 75 mm., the
length, 27 mm., the thickness 12.3 mm. It is to be referred to _E.
leidyi_.
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