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
5. _Brewster, Polk County._—In the volume last referred to, on page 72,
Sellards mentions parts of jaws and teeth found in a phosphate mine at
Brewster which are different from those of _Teleoceras proterus_. Some
of these are figured by Sellards on his pages 107 and 108. They have not
been specifically or generically determined.
FINDS OF PLEISTOCENE PECCARIES IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
NEW YORK.
(Map 20.)
1. _Rochester, Monroe County._—In 1889 (Trans. Wagner Inst. Sci., vol.
II, pp. 33–40), Leidy described and figured a skull of _Platygonus
compressus_, purchased of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, at
Rochester, and said to have been found in a gravel bank in a railroad
excavation, a few miles from Rochester. This skull was a part of 2
incomplete skeletons found lying together.
The writer received word from Professor Henry L. Ward, director of the
Milwaukee Public Museum, that he recollects that, when a small boy,
about 1873 or 1874, he went with his father, Henry A. Ward, to some
point on the New York Central Railroad, where peccary remains had been
found. He thinks the place was at or near Pittsford. Dr. F. A. Lucas,
director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, then in
the employ of the elder Ward, writes that the place was at Pittsford,
and in a gravel bank being worked by the railroad company to obtain
materials for a fill. The exact depth at which the bones were found is
not recalled, but it was not great.
The locality, according to Fairchild’s plate 42 (Bull. 127, State Mus.,
New York), is on the predecessor of Irondequoit Bay, extending out from
Lake Iroquois. The peccaries possibly lived rather early in the late
Wisconsin stage; but more probably their time of existence was
considerably later, when the climate had become milder.
2. _Gainesville, Wyoming County._—From Mr. C. A. Hartnagel, assistant
State geologist of New York, the writer received notice of the
discovery, in 1914, of the remains of 2 peccaries at a point about
one-third of a mile northwest of Gainesville. The remains consist of 2
nearly complete skulls, parts of 5 ribs, 2 scapulæ, 2 metacarpals, 1
innominate bone, 1 ilium, 1 radius, 1 ulna, and 2 tibiæ. These have been
identified by Dr. John M. Clarke as belonging to _Platygonus
compressus_.
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