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
2. _Frankstown, Blair County._—In 1908, Dr. W. J. Holland reported (Ann.
Carnegie Mus., vol. IV, p. 231) found in a bone cave at Frankstown the
third and fourth lower premolars of a tapir about the size of _Tapir
americanus_, which name is a synonym of _T. terrestris_. This will be
mentioned in the discussion of the geology of the region on page 321.
OHIO.
(Maps 19, 36.)
1. _New Salisbury?, Columbiana County._—Somewhere in the region probably
of the town named was found, about 1850, a jaw of a tapir, apparently
mentioned first by Louis Agassiz (Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. V,
1851, p. 179), who referred to it as a jaw of a pachyderm. Leidy, in
1860 (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,” p. 107),
reported that he had studied a much-mutilated fragment of the lower jaw
of the smaller variety of the extinct tapir, which had belonged to
Professor J. Brainerd, of Cleveland. It had been found in the valley of
Yellow Creek, in Columbiana County, in an erosion of the coal series. It
was covered with 30 feet of clay, at a height of 186 feet above
low-water in Ohio River. Charles Whittlesey, in 1866 (Smithson. Contrib.
Knowl., vol. XV, art. 3, p. 16), stated that this specimen was taken
from “valley drift,” of Yellow Creek, in Columbiana County, by Mr. E.
White, C. E., in a cut of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Inasmuch as Yellow
Creek itself does not enter the county named, reference must be to what
is called, on the topographical sheet of the U. S. Geological Survey,
North Fork of Yellow Creek. The railroad follows this creek for many
miles in the county. The town of New Salisbury is taken as being
probably not far from the locality. It is not known what became of this
specimen, nor is it possible to say to which species it belonged. It is
to be referred probably to the Sangamon stage.
INDIANA.
(Map 19.)
1. _Evansville, Vanderburg County._—Tapir remains have been found at
only one place in Indiana, viz, in the banks of the Ohio River at the
mouth of Pigeon Creek, a short distance below Evansville. A single lower
hinder molar formed part of a collection made by Mr. Francis A. Lincke
and described by Leidy (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, p. 199).
This tooth was figured by Leidy in 1860 (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene Fossils
of South Carolina,” p. 107, plate XVII, figs. 9, 10) under the name
_Tapirus haysii_. Associated with the tooth were remains of _Megalonyx
jeffersonii_, a bison of probably an extinct species, the Virginia deer,
the horse known as _Equus complicatus_, and the large extinct wolf
_Ænocyon dirus_.
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