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. _Dandridge, Jefferson County._—On the left bank of Dumplin (or
Dumpling) Creek, about 5 miles above its entrance into French Broad
River, and apparently about as many miles northwest from Dandridge, is a
cavern known as Zirkel’s Cave. Dr. H. C. Mercer briefly described (Dept.
Amer. and Prehist. Archæology, Univ. Penn., 1896) his investigation of
the cave. He reported the finding of remains of tapir, peccary, bear,
and small rodents; but these were not specifically determined.
3. _Lookout Mountain, Hamilton County._—In 1894 (Amer. Naturalist, vol.
XXVIII, p. 356), Mercer reported that he had found teeth of a tapir in a
cave on Lookout Mountain. Cope, on page 597 of the same volume,
identified these teeth as those of _T. haysii_. With them was found a
bone, thought to belong to a mylodon.
According to a letter received by the writer from Dr. Mercer, the tapir
specimen consisted of a lower right ramus, 1 left incisor, and 5 molars.
The teeth appear all to have been loose and the jawbone was broken into
about 8 fragments. The cave and its contents will be discussed on page
398.
4. _Bristol, Sullivan County._—In the U. S. National Museum are 2 tapir
teeth in a fragment of the left maxilla. These are the fourth premolar
and the first molar, both considerably worn. The size of these teeth
indicates that they belong to _Tapirus haysii_.
KENTUCKY.
(Map 19.)
1. _Bigbone Lick, Boone County._—The evidences for the occurrence of a
species of tapir at this place are not as convincing as might be
desired. In 1852, Dr. I. Hays (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. VI, p.
53) presented to the Academy a tooth of a tapir which he had had in his
possession two years and which was said by him to have come from the bed
of a canal in North Carolina. This tooth was named by Leidy _Tapirus
haysii_ on page 106 of the volume cited and again on page 148, but
without description. It was again mentioned by him in 1853 (Jour. Acad.
Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. VII, p. 201) and again without description. In
1860, Leidy (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,” p. 106,
plate XVI, figs. 7, 8) described and figured the tooth and stated that
it was supposed to have come from Bigbone Lick. Which of the statements
was correct the writer does not know.
2. _Stamping Ground, Scott County._—In 1910 the writer received for
examination from Professor Arthur M. Miller, professor of geology in the
State University at Lexington, Kentucky, a part of a lower jaw of
_Tapirus haysii_, found between the town named and Georgetown, in the
bottom of a filled-up sink-hole encountered in lead-mining operations,
on McConnell’s Run. In this specimen all the molars are complete and the
roots of the 3 hinder premolars are present.
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