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
1. _Port Kennedy, Montgomery County._—From the noted bone cave at Port
Kennedy a number of species of _Megalonyx_ have been described. The
presence of this genus was first announced by Wheatley (Amer. Jour.
Sci., ser. 3, vol. I, p. 384). Cope, in 1899 (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci.,
Phila., vol. XI, pp. 211–219), admitted the occurrence of 4 species,
_Megalonyx wheatleyi_, _M. loxodon_, _M. tortulus_, and _M. scalper_. It
must be left to future investigations to determine the status of these
species. _M. jeffersonii_ was not recognized by Cope in the materials
found in the cave. Of _M. loxodon_, only a single upper canine molar was
found. Of _M. wheatleyi_, numerous specimens were secured, including
considerable parts of crushed and decayed skulls. _M. tortulus_ was
represented by a considerable number of teeth; _M. scalper_ by only a
single “canine-molar.” On page 312 will be found a list of the species
of vertebrates associated with these sloths. Of _Mylodon_, Wheatley (op.
cit., p. 384) had a single ungual phalanx which Cope (op. cit., p. 210)
thought belonged probably to _M. harlani_.
2. _Frankstown, Blair County._—Remains of an undetermined species of
_Megalonyx_ have been reported from a bone cave at this place by Dr. W.
J. Holland (Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. IV, 1908, p. 231). The associated
species are listed on pages 321–322.
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1. _North Fairfield, Huron County._—In the Norwalk, Huron County, Museum
there are various bones of _Megalonyx jeffersonii_ which were obtained
about 7 miles from North Fairfield. The writer learned of the discovery
of this skeleton from Mr. Roe Niver, a student of the University of
Illinois. Unfortunately Mr. Niver died before the writer could obtain
all the desired information. A part of the skeleton was in his
possession and is probably in the possession of his family, but the
writer has been unable to secure any information from them. The bones
were found at a depth of a few feet in a hackberry swamp and were
considerably scattered. In the search for these the bones which form the
type of _Bison sylvestris_ Hay were found. The locality is within the
area of the Wisconsin drift-sheet and evidently the animal lived there
after the ice had retired from the region.
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