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. _Essex County._—In 1898 (Science, n. s., vol. VII, p. 80), Dr. H. M.
Ami reported that he had exhumed some mastodon remains in this county.
The exact locality was not given. It was north of the west end of Lake
Erie. The section dug up was from 6 to 8 feet deep. At the bottom were
clay and boulders; above this were found gravel and the bones, and above
these sand, shell marl, peat, and other sands of various colors. The
remains were fragmentary.
2. _Morpeth and Highgate, Elgin County._—In 1858 (Canad. Jour. Indust.
Sci. Art, ser. 2, vol. III, p. 356), E. J. Chapman announced the
discovery of a tooth of mastodon at or near this place. He had seen a
drawing of the tooth. It appears that another man also had sent to the
journal an account of the discovery, accompanied by drawings. These
showed 5 distinct crown-ridges.
In 1891 (Geol. Mag. London, ser. 3, vol. VIII, p. 504; Brit. Assoc. Adv.
Sci., 64th meeting, 1892, p. 654), Professor J. Hoyes Panton gave an
account of the discovery of mammoth and mastodon bones at Highgate, only
a few miles north of Morpeth. These were found in a bed of marl. Some
measurements of the mastodon were given.
3. _St. Thomas, Elgin County._—In a private museum at Niagara Falls,
owned at the time by Davis Brothers, the writer saw a quite complete
lower jaw and a tusk, labeled as having been found at this place in
1856, on the farm of Isaac Barnard. The jaw had the last 3 teeth on the
right side and the last 2 on the left side. In front was a tusk about 6
inches long which appeared to be in the middle of the jaw. The upper
tusk is curved in a semicircle. Dr. J. W. Dawson (Geol. Mag. London,
ser. 1, vol. VI, 1869, p. 39) mentions this find. He stated that there
were 2 lower tusks. If this was the case the species _M. progenium_ is
indicated.
4. _London, Middlesex County._—In the article quoted above from the
Geological Magazine of London, Dr. J. W. Dawson stated that there were
in the Provincial Museum 3 mastodon molars which had been found at
London.
5. _Marburg, Norfolk County._—In 1898 (Science, n. s., vol. VII, p. 80),
Dr. H. M. Ami reported the exhumation of remains of a mastodon at some
place in this county. The skull, 25 ribs, 40 foot-bones, 2 tusks, and
many vertebræ were recovered. The remains were buried at a depth of from
only 3 to 4.5 feet. At the bottom was clay; above this, shell marl, and
sands of different colors; and above all was peat.
The writer has seen this skull in Victoria Museum, Ottawa. It is to a
considerable extent restored. It appears to have been found at or near
Marburg. A small label, somewhat injured, has the record: “West half lot
15, R V, Tp. of [?]dhouse, Norfolk Co., Ont. Ami, 1897.” The penultimate
and ultimate molars are in place. The former is 113 mm. long; the latter
is 174 mm. long, and has 4 crests and a talon. The tusks are present and
the right one is 2,230 mm. long. The skull is a large one. The width
across the rear is 760 mm.
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