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
The writer has examined a large canine tooth found in the stratum of
sand, No. 2. From its size it is referred to _Equus complicatus_. Its
fore-and-aft diameter is 14 mm. Another tooth from the stratum, an upper
right third true molar, finely preserved and retaining some of the
cement, is regarded as belonging to _E. leidyi_. Two lower teeth from
No. 2 are water-worn, but retain their structure. The fore-and-aft
diameter of each is 21 mm. They must have belonged to the little horse
called _E. littoralis_. A fragment of an upper tooth is referred to this
species. It is not water-worn, but has been split from the crown to the
root. A hinder first phalangeal bone found in the canal (No. 1802 of the
Florida Geological Survey) is 96 mm. long. This indicates a horse as
large as our ordinary domestic horses and it probably belonged to _Equus
complicatus_.
22. _Labelle, Lee County._—In 1889 (Trans. Wagner Inst., vol. II, p.
17), Leidy stated that Mr. Joseph Willcox had obtained, from a Pliocene
shell-bed on Caloosahatchee River, some remains of a fossil horse,
consisting of two cervical vertebræ and a part of a lower jaw, which
contained the first and second molar teeth. These teeth are probably
what would be called premolars 2 and 3. Leidy referred the remains to
his _Equus fraternus_ (=_E. leidyi_).
Dall (Bull. No. 84, U. S. Geol. Surv., p. 129) stated that _Equus
fraternus_, _Bison latifrons_, and _Elephas columbi_ were found in
Pliocene beds on the Caloosahatchee, but Sellards (8th Rep. Florida
Geol. Surv., p. 102) corrects this error as to the age.
The writer has received a letter from Mr. Willcox in which he states
that the fragment of lower jaw was found about 2 or 3 miles below
Labelle.
23. _Palm Beach, Palm Beach County._—In 1916 (8th Ann. Rep. Florida
Geol. Surv., p. 105), Sellards wrote that Mr. J. L. Hayes had secured
for the Florida State Geological Survey, from the Palm Beach Canal,
teeth of _Elephas columbi_ and _Equus complicatus_ and a femur of a
species of _Bison_.
ALABAMA.
(Map 17.)
1. _Newbern, Hale County._—In August 1914, there was received at the U.
S. National Museum, from Mr. J. W. White, of Newbern, a lower left first
incisor of a horse. This, with a lower molar of a species of _Bison_,
had been found in a creek. The incisor is somewhat worn, but still
retained a part of the cup. The grinding-face is 14 mm. from side to
side. The species can not be determined.
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