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
3. _Memphis, Shelby County._—In 1850 (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol.
III, p. 280; Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, vol. X, p. 58), Jeffries Wyman
reported that a tooth and a claw of _Megalonyx jeffersonii_ had been
found in the “diluvium” of Mississippi River at Memphis. The tooth is a
first upper molar of large size; the claw is that of the median digit.
With these were found remains of mastodon, beaver, and _Castoroides
ohioensis_.
4. _Nashville, Davidson County._—From Mr. William Edward Myer,
Nashville, Tennessee, the writer has received for examination a fragment
of a tooth of a mylodon which was found near Nashville, in sand or
gravel, along Cumberland River, beneath 30 feet of gravel. This tooth
appears to be the left lower penultimate molar of _Mylodon harlani_, but
it is in some ways different. The antero-inner face has a broad, shallow
groove, while the outer face makes a smaller angle with the inner hinder
face than in the tooth figured by Leidy.
The transverse section resembles that of the lower penultimate molar of
_M. sulcidens_ Cope (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. XXXIV, plate X, fig.
4_a_), and somewhat the tooth regarded by Cope as the upper fourth molar
of _M. sulcidens_ (op. cit., plate XI, fig. 7). It is probable that _M.
sulcidens_ and _M. renidens_ of Cope are synonyms of _M. harlani_, as
Stock (Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. VIII, p. 331) is inclined to
believe.
The greatest length of a cross-section of the tooth found at Nashville
is 27 mm.; the greatest width 14 mm. The tooth is the property of Mr. H.
L. Ridge, of Nashville.
At the same locality have been found remains of _Equus leidyi_, _E.
complicatus_, _Mammut americanum_, a camel (_Camelops?_), a species of
deer, and some turtle bones. The deposit seems to belong to a stage not
far removed from the Aftonian.
KENTUCKY.
(Map 3.)
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