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
10. _Jaquet River, Restigouche County._—In 1874 (Trans. Nova Scotia
Inst. Sci., vol. III, pp. 400–404), Dr. J. B. Gilpin gave an account of
the discovery of some cetacean bones in a railroad cut at the place
named, but did not identify the bones otherwise than as those of a small
cetacean. In the same year (Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 3, vol. VII, p. 597),
in a short, unsigned communication, this discovery was mentioned and the
whale was identified as _Beluga vermontana_. In volume VIII of the same
journal (1874, p. 219), Dr. D. Honeyman described the deposit and gave a
list of the shells found in it. Dawson (Canad. Ice Age, p. 268) refers
the bones to _Beluga catodon_. The locality is a cut of the
International Railway, on the north side of the Jaquet River, about 0.25
mile from the sea. Gilpin gives the elevation as 40 feet above the sea;
the writer of the unsigned communication just mentioned gives it as 25
feet.
Professor G. H. Perkins (Rep. State Geologist Vermont, 1907–8, pp.
102–112) studied the bones described by Gilpin. They consisted of 18
vertebræ, some fragments of the skull, one of the ear-bones, a part of
the lower jaw, some fragments of ribs, and some arm-bones. He identified
the animal as belonging to the genus _Monodon_ and probably _M.
monoceros_, the existing narwhal.
11. _Mace’s Bay, Charlotte County._—In 1879 (Geol. Survey of Canada,
1877–78, EE, p. 23), Mr. G. F. Matthew reported the discovery of a ramus
of the lower jaw of a whale, possibly a species of _Delphinapterus_, at
the mouth of the Popologan (or Pocologan) River. It is now in the
Mechanics’ Institute at St. John. It had fallen from a bank of Leda
clay. It probably belongs to the late Pleistocene.
VERMONT.
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