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
│ │ │
│ _Illinoian │ │ │ │
│ Stage._ │ │ │ │
│In Illinois, │Conard fissure, │May include some │Equus, Mylohyus, │
│ Wisconsin, │ Newton County, │ accredited to │ Symbos, Felis, │
│ eastern Iowa, │ Arkansas. Otherwise│ the Kansan. │ Smilodontopsis, │
│ Indiana, Ohio.│ none recognized. │ │ Dinobastis. │
│ Supposed │ │ │ │
│ glacial drift │ │ │ │
│ from Long │ │ │ │
│ Island to │ │ │ │
│ Massachusetts │ │ │ │
│ (Montauk till,│ │ │ │
│ etc.). │ │ │ │
│ _Yarmouth │ │ │ │
│ Stage._ │ │ │ │
│Interglacial │Few vertebrates yet │Not known. │Few known. │
│ soils and │ recognized. Skunk │ │ Doubtless those │
│ mucks between │ and rabbit at │ │ which became │
│ the Kansan and│ Yarmouth, Iowa. │ │ extinct during │
│ Illinoian in │ │ │ Illinoian and │
│ Iowa and │ │ │ Iowan and later.│
│ Illinois. │ │ │ │
│ Gardner clay │ │ │ │
│ and Sankaty │ │ │ │
│ from Long │ │ │ │
│ Island to │ │ │ │
│ Boston. │ │ │ │
│_Kansan Stage._ │ │ │ │
│Iowa, Missouri, │Fossil vertebrates │Megatherium, │Doubtless those in│
│ Kansas, and │ rarely found. │ Glyptodon, │ the later stages│
│ northwestward.│ │ Stegomastodon, │ of this column │
│ Loess │ │ Anancus, │ and some of │
│ overlying the │ │ Gomphotherium?,│ those of this │
│ drift; │ │ Elephas │ stage in column │
│ Jerseyan │ │ imperator, │ 3. │
│ drift. New │ │ Eschatius, │ │
│ Jersey (may be│ │ Camelops, │ │
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