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
On page 32 is discussed the probable age of the bone-bed which contained
the animals named above. It is concluded that the age is possibly the
Aftonian, but more probably the Sangamon. This species of tapir has been
found at Bigbone Lick, Kentucky, between Louisville and Cincinnati, in
deposits containing _Equus complicatus_, 2 extinct species of _Bison_,
deer, etc. The deposits lie on Illinoian drift and are in part, at
least, of Sangamon age.
MARYLAND.
(Map 19.)
1. _Corriganville, Allegany County._—In a crevice in limestone rock, at
a point about 3 miles west of north of Cumberland, Mr. J. W. Gidley
found a tooth of a tapir. The tooth has never been specifically
identified. A list of the associated species, as far as determined, will
be given on page 350.
VIRGINIA.
(Map 19.)
1. _Ivanhoe, Wythe County._—In 1869 (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. XI,
p. 176), Cope announced the discovery of several lower molars of a tapir
in what he regarded as cave breccia, along New River. These teeth he
found to be somewhat larger than those of _T. terrestris_, the Central
and South American species, and he referred them to _Tapirus haysii_. A
list of the species found here is given on page 353.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
(Map 19.)
1. _Charleston, Charleston County._—In 1860 (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene
Fossils of South Carolina,” p. 106, plate XVII, figs. 2, 3), Leidy
described briefly and figured 2 injured upper cheek-teeth of a tapir
found in the Pleistocene of Ashley River, and referred by him to
_Tapirus americanus fossilis_, on the supposition that they were not
different from those of the existing South American tapir, but larger.
The larger of the two teeth (fig. 2) appears to have had a fore-and-aft
diameter of about 29 mm. It seems, therefore, to belong to Leidy’s
species _Tapirus haysii_. Under the same name, _T. americanus fossilis_,
Leidy illustrated (figs. 11, 12) a lower molar found on Ashley River.
This appears to be too small to have belonged to _T. haysii_. Instead,
however, of referring it to _T. americanus_ (=_T. terrestris_) it may
possibly be found to belong to _T. veroensis_ Sellards, the lower molars
of which are not certainly known. The length of the tooth figured by
Leidy is that of a second molar of _T. terrestris_, but the width is
greater than in the latter.
In the Charleston Museum is a part of a left ramus of the lower jaw of a
tapir likewise referred to _T. veroensis_ Sellards. This fragment
contains all 3 of the true molars. The following measurements were
secured:
_Measurements, in millimeters, of lower molars of tapirs in the
Charleston Museum._
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