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° — John Shaqi
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. _Montreal, Quebec._—In 1863, Logan (Geol. Surv. Canada, p. 920) told
of the discovery of a skeleton of _Phoca grœndlandica_ near Montreal.
The exact locality appears to be about 0.75 mile east of what was then
known as the Mile-end quarries. These quarries were about 100 feet above
sea-level, and the spot where the skeleton was found was about 40 feet
lower down. At a nearby brickyard some bones of a young seal were
discovered which belonged probably to the same species. One of the
pelvic bones of a seal was found also at the Mile-end quarries. Dr. J.
W. Dawson (“Canadian Ice Age,” 1844, p. 267) stated that the skeleton
was found in the Leda clay; that it is in the collection of the
Geological Survey, at Ottawa; and that detached bones are in the Peter
Redpath Museum of McGill University at Montreal. The Leda clay, at least
that of the upper portion of the St. Lawrence Valley, is now referred to
the Champlain epoch, a time when the sea had invaded this valley and
even Lake Ontario.
5. _Tétreauville, Ottawa County._—In 1897 H. M. Ami (Ottawa Naturalist,
vol. XI, p. 24) announced that he and Ruggles Wright had found some
bones which were probably those of a young harbor seal, _Phoca
vitulina_. They were collected in 1888, in a sandy layer about 30 feet
below the surface, on a hillside, at Wright’s brick clay pits, on Aylmer
Road, Tétreauville, Quebec. This place is about 5 miles west of Hull,
and within 10 miles of Ottawa. These bones are in the Victoria Museum at
Ottawa. Besides the left half of the lower jaw with teeth, there are
both ear-bones, one exoccipital, the greater portion of the backbone,
scapula, part of the pelvis, and some of the larger limb-bones. This
species is abundant in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and also ascends the
larger rivers to a great distance. Doubtless great numbers inhabited the
inland sea which, during Champlain times, is believed to have occupied
the valley of the St. Lawrence, Lake Ontario, and the valley of the
Ottawa River nearly as far up as the city of Ottawa.
ONTARIO.
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