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
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│ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │
│Drift-sheets and│ Representative │Disappearance of │ Characteristic │
│other deposits. │ collections. │ genera and │ genera. │
│ │ │ species. │ │
├────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ _Wisconsin │ │ │ │
│ Stage._ │ │ │ │
│Atlantic to │Made in swamps and │Megalonyx, │Existing mammals, │
│ Pacific in │ old lakes on │ Elephas, │ plus those of │
│ Wisconsin, │ Wisconsin drift │ Mammut, │ column 3 │
│ Illinois, │ (Wabash beds) from │ Cervalces, │ │
│ Iowa, Indiana,│ Illinois to │ Symbos, │ │
│ Ohio, New │ Massachusetts and │ Boötherium, │ │
│ York, New │ Cape Breton Island.│ Mylohyus, │ │
│ Jersey (Cape │ Leda clays, Canada.│ Platygonus │ │
│ May, Trenton │ │ Bison │ │
│ gravels), │ │ occidentalis, │ │
│ Ontario, │ │ Castoroides │ │
│ Quebec, etc., │ │ │ │
│ Maine, │ │ │ │
│ Massachusetts.│ │ │ │
│_Peorian Stage._│ │ │ │
│Old soils │Fossil mammals rarely│None certainly │Few recognized. In│
│ between the │ found. │ known. │ general, those │
│ Iowan and the │ │ │ of the │
│ Wisconsin │ │ │ Wisconsin. │
│ drifts where │ │ │ │
│ the former is │ │ │ │
│ present. │ │ │ │
│ Reported by │ │ │ │
│ Leverett (Mon.│ │ │ │
│ U. S. Geol. │ │ │ │
│ Surv., vol. │ │ │ │
│ XXXVIII) from │ │ │ │
│ localities in │ │ │ │
│ Illinois. │ │ │ │
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