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
4. _Frankstown, Blair County._—In 1908 (Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. IV, p.
231), Dr. W. J. Holland reported remains of a number of peccaries found
in a bone cave at the place named. He mentioned especially _Dicotyles
pennsylvanicus_, but thought it belonged properly in _Platygonus_. It is
probably to be referred to _Mylohyus_ as _M. pennsylvanicus_.
OHIO.
(Maps 20, 36.)
1. _Wilmington, Clinton County._—In the collection of the Archæological
and Historical Museum of the University of Ohio, at Columbus, are
considerable parts of the jaws, teeth, and other parts of the skeleton
of a specimen of _Platygonus compressus_ exhumed at a point about 4.5
miles north of west of Wilmington. The locality is given as being in the
northeast corner of Adams Township, south of the road running northeast
and southwest between Todd and Dutch Creeks; also about 0.6 mile south
of the north line of Adams Township and about 0.75 mile from the east
line. It would therefore be near the second northwesterly directed loop
of Todd Creek in that neighborhood.
2. _Columbus, Franklin County_.—In 1875 (Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci.,
vol. XXIII, Hartford, pp. 1–6; also in Cin. Quart. Jour. Sci., vol. II,
pp. 1–6), J. H. Klippart gave an account of the finding of about a dozen
skeletons of _Platygonus compressus_. These were buried in 2 “nests” not
far from each other. The bones were rather brittle and were damaged
somewhat in exhuming them. The place of burial was in the bank
(apparently the right) of Olentangy River, at the crossing of Olentangy
and Montgomery streets. The remains were here buried in a sand-bank. One
lot of 6 of the smallest animals was found in penetrating the sand bank
about 20 feet from the entrance and at a depth of 8 feet from the
surface. They were embedded in calcareous clay and sand. The other 6 and
largest animals were found about 6 feet farther in and about 4 feet
deeper. It appears that all the animals were lying with their snouts
directed toward the southeast. Klippart thought that they had been
destroyed suddenly and violently. It is, however, probable that they had
been frozen in their beds during a winter storm. Of these skeletons it
appears that half went to Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale University, and
the present writer has had the privilege of studying them. The
geological age of the animals will be considered on page 330.
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