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
3. _Dunnellon, Marion County._—The writer has examined a number of tapir
teeth found in phosphate beds in Withlacoochee River, at Dunnellon. From
the Florida geological survey an upper left second premolar (No. 1440)
has been received which is considerably larger than the corresponding
tooth of _Tapirus terrestris_ and presents other peculiarities. It may
have belonged to _T. haysii_. An upper second true molar (No. 1440) has
the crown 23 mm. long, 27 mm. wide across the front lobe, and 23 mm.
across the hinder lobe. The corresponding dimensions of a specimen of
_T. terrestris_ from Surinam are 24 mm., 25.5 mm., and 21.5 mm. A tooth
(No. 1378) which appears to be the lower left second molar is 22.5 mm.
long, 19 mm. wide in front, and 20 mm. wide behind. The corresponding
measurements of _T. terrestris_ are 22.5 mm., 18.5 mm., and 17.5 mm. The
buttresses which descend from the outer ends of the crests of the fossil
tooth are not so strongly developed as in _T. terrestris_. Probably
these teeth belong to an undescribed species. An upper molar having a
length of 23 mm. has been shown the writer by Dr. L. W. Stephenson; it
was found in phosphate deposits at Dunnellon and sent to him by Sister
M. Catherine, of St. Joseph’s Academy, at St. Augustine.
4. _Near Ocala, Marion County._—Mr. J. D. Robertson, of Ocala, presented
to the National Museum a tooth of a tapir, found in phosphate deposits a
few miles from Ocala, section 5, township 15 south, range 23 east.
5. _Tampa, Hillsboro County._—In the collection of fossils, at
Vanderbilt University, made from the phosphate-producing beds in
Hillsboro County, is part of the left ramus of a lower jaw of a tapir
containing the first and second true molars. The first molar has a
length of 24 mm. and a width of 20 mm. in front. This is smaller than
the corresponding tooth of _T. terrestris_ and near that supposed to
belong to _T. veroensis_. The second molar has lost its hinder crest.
Under the first molar the jaw is 54 mm. deep and 37 mm. thick.
The writer (Fossil Turtles of North America, p. 361) reported the
finding of tapir teeth in Alafia River, in this county.
6. _Vero, St. Lucie County._—At this important locality remains of
tapirs have been found in the bed of sands known as No. 2, and likewise
in the bed of muck mentioned in discussions of the locality as No. 3.
From the latter have been secured parts of 2 lower jaws and a number of
detached teeth (Sellards, 8th Ann. Rep., p. 149). One at least of these
(No. 6943) appears to belong to _Tapirus haysii_. From No. 2 Dr.
Sellards has obtained a nearly complete skull of a tapir, described
(10th and 11th Ann. Rep. Fla. Geol. Surv., p. 57, plates I-IV) as
_Tapirus veroensis_. From the same stratum he (8th Ann. Rep., p. 139)
secured a part of a tooth which he referred with some doubt to _T.
haysii_.
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