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
┌─────────────┬───────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
│ Tooth. │ Tapir from Charleston. │ T. terrestris, U. S. Nat. │
│ │ │ Mus. No. 238110 │
├─────────────┼─────────────┬─────────────┼─────────────┬─────────────┤
│ │ Length. │ Width. │ Length. │ Width. │
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Pm^1 │19 │24.5 │19 │25 │
│ M^1 │20 │25.5 │21 │23 │
│ M^2 │22.5 │28 │23.5 │27 │
│ M^3 │24.5 │27.5 │25.5 │26 │
└─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┘
The molar teeth have an acute angle between the anterior and the outer
borders, and the front and the hinder faces of the protocone and the
hypocone are not so swollen as in the tooth referred to _T. haysii_. In
apparently every respect the teeth of the fossil agree with the teeth of
_Tapirus terrestris_ from Brazil. It is to be hoped that before long a
good skull of the Pleistocene tapir whose teeth so closely resemble
those of _T. terrestris_ will be discovered. If the two prove to be the
same species it will seem that only the descendants of those which
migrated to North America perished during the Glacial period.
There is another tooth, an upper left second molar, of _T. terrestris_
in the Scanlan collection; also the rear half of an upper molar labeled
as coming from Bull River. Other fragments of teeth are recorded as
coming from Ashley River.
In the Charleston Museum (No. 13495) is a part of the left ramus of the
lower jaw with the 3 molars. On measurement it is found that the teeth
and jaw agree closely with those of _T. terrestris_.
GEORGIA.
(Map 19.)
1. _Brunswick, Glynn County._—In Bulletin No. 26 of the Geological
Survey of Georgia, Mr. J. W. Gidley published a list of species of
vertebrate fossils which belong to the State collection at Atlanta,
secured during some dredging operations at Brunswick. This list, with
modifications, is incorporated in that presented on page 370. Among the
fossils examined by Gidley, a tooth was recognized as that of _Tapirus
haysii_.
FLORIDA.
(Map 19.)
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