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
Mr. Earle Sloan’s collection at the Charleston Museum has two other
fragments of tusks. One, No. 13497, is 113 mm. long, 60 mm. wide, and 25
mm. thick; the other, No. 13296, is 140 mm. long, 60 mm. wide, and 31
mm. thick.
Considering that all of the remains of the walrus found about Charleston
have been picked out of great quantities of phosphate rock collected for
commercial purposes, and that no records of the exact locality where
obtained have been kept, it is impossible to determine their exact
geological age. It is to be supposed that this animal inhabited the
region about Charleston at the time it frequented the coasts of North
Carolina and New Jersey. This appears to have been during the Wisconsin
stage; but it is possible that the walrus extended its range far
southward during more than one of the glacial stages. All of the
specimens appear to be thoroughly fossilized.
FINDS OF XENARTHRA IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
NEW JERSEY.
(Map 3.)
1. _Long Branch, Monmouth County._—In the American Museum of Natural
History, New York, there is a large heel-bone which was found at the
place named and identified as having belonged to a species of
_Megatherium_, most probably to _M. mirabile_. It was presented by Dr.
A. R. Ledoux, of New York, who wrote that he found it about 40 years ago
while bathing at Long Branch. With this bone were found a skull of a
walrus and a tooth of a mastodon. The heel-bone is somewhat more than 15
inches long. It was incrusted with barnacles and small oyster shells.
While one can not at present be certain that this animal did not live up
to a late stage of the Pleistocene, it is improbable that it did so. It
is also quite improbable that the megatherium and walrus lived at Long
Branch at the same time. It is more likely that the megatherium had its
existence there at the time when horses lived in the same region and
when the Port Kennedy fauna existed; that is, at some time during the
early Pleistocene about the Aftonian stage.
PENNSYLVANIA.
(Map 3.)
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