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
1. _Bigbone Lick, Boone County._—In their report published in 1831
(Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XX, p. 371), Cooper, Smith, and Dekay reported
they found in the collection from this place large teeth and bones of a
horse. They regarded these as being of equal antiquity with the extinct
animals associated with them. In 1847 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
vol. III, p. 263, 264) Leidy stated that there were in the Academy 10
permanent molars of a horse from Bigbone Lick. These he referred to
_Equus curvidens_. In 1853 (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. VII, p.
263) he wrote that several teeth supposed to have come from this
locality had possibly been obtained elsewhere.
In 1851 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 140), he spoke of foot-bones
of the horse, a calcaneum and first phalanx, from the same place. In
1860 (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,” p. 104), Leidy
mentioned several horse-bones from Bigbone Lick presented to the
American Philosophical Society by President Jefferson. In Rochester
University are 2 hoof phalanges labeled from Bigbone Lick. Osborn (“Age
of Mammals,” p. 478) puts down _Equus_ from Bigbone Lick as being
doubtful. There appears to be no good reason for this.
The remains of horses from this locality appear all to belong to _Equus
complicatus_.
2. _Monday’s Landing, Mercer County._—From Professor Arthur M. Miller,
of the University of Kentucky, the writer has received for examination a
much-worn upper left molar or premolar of a horse found at the place
named. It was met with in a fissure filled with crystallized calcite,
near the bank of Kentucky River. The vein of calcite was about 6 feet
wide. Similar veins at this locality have been worked down to a depth of
200 or 300 feet. A part of a lower jaw of a deer-like animal was found
in one of these veins. The horse-tooth is badly worn, but it appears to
have belonged to a small species, the fore-and-aft length of the crown
being only 19 mm. The enamel of the anterior lake is considerably
complicated. It is impossible, from the lack of other fossil remains, to
determine the geological age of this horse.
FINDS OF PLEISTOCENE TAPIRIDÆ IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
PENNSYLVANIA.
(Map 19.)
1. _Port Kennedy, Montgomery County._—In 1871, Wheatley announced (Amer.
Jour. Sci., ser. 3, vol. I, p. 384) that he had discovered in the Port
Kennedy bone cave 2 species of tapirs (_Tapirus americanus_ and _T.
haysii_). In 1899 (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. II, p. 253), Cope
stated that remains of 35 or more tapirs had been discovered in this
cave. He referred all to _T. haysii_. These tapirs will be mentioned
again on page 312, where the geological relations of the cave and its
contents are considered.
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