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. _Archer, Alachua County._—Leidy mentioned (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., 1886, pp. 11, 12) the fact that an astragalus of _Megatherium_
had been found at Archer. Several other species of vertebrates have been
found there, among them _Teleoceras fossiger_, _Gomphotherium
floridanum_, _Hipparion plicatile_, three species of _Procamelus_, and a
species of _Tapirus_. The deposits are assigned to the Pliocene, but it
is doubtful whether the megatherium and the tapir belonged among the
others. The geology of the locality is discussed on page 375. The
megatherium, as an undetermined species, is included in the list of
fossils which is recorded by Leidy in Bulletin 84 of the United States
Geological Survey, page 129. It may be referred provisionally to Leidy’s
_Megatherium mirabile_.
2. _Almero Farm, St. John County._—In the collection of Mr. Fred Allen,
at St. Augustine, the writer has seen a right tibia of a mylodon found
in the Inland Waterway Canal about 28 miles south of St. Augustine. The
bone is complete, except that a sliver has been split off the upper half
of the outer border. The total length of the bone is 290 mm.; the
greatest width of the upper end 208 mm.; width at middle of length 105
mm.; width of surface for astragalus 130 mm. This appears to be a
relatively stouter bone than the larger one described by Harlan (Amer.
Jour. Sci., vol. XLIV, 1842, p. 77). It is also larger and relatively
stouter than a tibia found at Labelle, Lee County, described on page 40.
It is referred to _Mylodon harlani_.
11. _Williston, Levy County._—In the U. S. National Museum there are
some foot-bones of a large ground-sloth, which are labeled as having
been collected in 1887 by the U. S. Geological Survey, in the county
named. The collector was probably J. B. Hatcher. The astragalus had
evidently been studied by Leidy. This bone was described by the writer
in 1919 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. LVI, p. 104, plate XXVII) as
_Thinobadistes segnis_. Later, other parts of the foot were found in the
museum and described (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. LIX, p. 638, plate
CXIX, figs. 6–11).
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