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. _Labelle, Lee County._—In the Florida Geological Survey is a right
tibia of a mylodon, found on the bank of Caloosahatchee River, near
Labelle, presented by Capt. F. H. Hendry. The total length is 266 mm.;
on the inner border 236 mm. The width across the articulatory surface
for the femur is 164 mm. The width at the middle of the length is 84
mm.; fore-and-aft diameter at the same place 38 mm. The side-to-side
diameter of the surface for the astragalus is 57 mm. The bone is
referred to _Mylodon harlani_.
11. See page 37.
ALABAMA.
(Map 3.)
1. _Tuscumbia, Colbert County._—In his work on the “Extinct Sloth Tribe”
in North America (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. VII, art. V, p. 6,
plate XVI, fig. 13), Leidy, in recording the materials belonging to
_Megalonyx jeffersonii_ at his disposal, mentioned a supposed third
upper molar, said to have come “from Tuscumbia County, Alabama.” This
was an error, as the name of the town is Tuscumbia. The tooth had been
loaned to him by Dr. Jeffries Wyman. Nothing more is known about its
history. Mercer (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. XXXVI, p. 38) stated
that a well-preserved series of bones of _Megalonyx_ had been sent to
the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia by Mr. Tuomey. They had
been obtained in a cave somewhere in northern Alabama. Leidy does not
mention this collection in his work just cited.
MISSISSIPPI.
(Map 3.)
1. _Natchez, Adams County._—Dr. M. W. Dickeson (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., 1846, p. 106) exhibited before the Academy a large series of
fossil bones secured by him near Natchez. Among these were noted
especially what was described as an entire head with part of the lower
jaw, and many parts of the skeleton of _Megalonyx jeffersonii_. This
skull is still in the collection of the Academy. The lower jaw is
missing. It appears that several skeletons were represented in
Dickeson’s collection. These, as Dickeson stated, had been found in a
tenacious blue clay which underlies what he called diluvial drift, but
now regarded as being at least principally loess. Associated with this
animal were remains of _Ursus_, _Bos_ (_Bison_), _Cervus_
(_Odocoileus_), _Equus_, and some other but undetermined genera.
In his “Second Visit to the United States of North America,” edition 2,
1850, volume II, p. 196, Lyell mentions the _Megalonyx_ among other
fossils found at Natchez. He states that the fossils found by Doctor
Dickeson were obtained in the “Mammoth Ravine” 6 miles from Natchez.
In Southall’s “Recent Origin of Man,” 1875, page 552, is a statement
made by Professor C. G. Forshey (as quoted from Foster’s “Prehistoric
Races of the United States,” p. 61) in which he says that he visited the
locality where the human pelvis was found and that it was situated in
Bernard’s Bayou, 2.5 miles from Natchez.
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