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
From Dr. I. Edward Line, Rochester, N. Y., the writer has received a
photograph of an upper right penultimate molar, little worn, which he
reports as having been found in 1887, near Genesee River, on the road
from Avon to Fowlerville. It was discovered in a marshy part of the farm
of Robert Boyd and was exhumed by the late Dr. William Nishet, of Avon.
Other teeth, a tusk, and fragments of bone were found, some of which,
Dr. Line states, were taken to Harvard University by Professor F. W.
Putnam. Quite certainly this was the same mastodon as that reported by
Mr. Peck. The animal could not have lived here until after a stage
represented by Fairchild’s plate 37 (Bull. 127, New York State Mus.).
46. _Geneseo, Livingston County._—In 1827 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. XII,
p. 380), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer reported that, in 1826, the skull,
tusks, lower jaws with teeth, pelvis, and many other bones had been
found at Geneseo. Later (1841) Lyell and James Hall made excavations at
the same place, but discovered only some fragments of the skull and of
other bones. These were at a depth of about 5 feet and were mixed with
marl and yet existing fresh-water shells. Over all was a layer of muck
(Lyell, “Travels in North America,” vol. I, p. 55). Hall (Geol. 4th
Dist., p. 363, fig. 173) published a figure of one of the teeth, a
hindermost molar. The remark as to the geological age of the Fowlerville
specimen applies to this one.
47. _Nunda, Livingston County._—Clarke (Bull. 69, p. 932) stated, on the
authority of Charles E. Beecher, that 10 bones and fragments of a
mastodon had been secured here, and presented to Yale University
collection. No exact locality and no geological information were
furnished. The geological age is quite certainly late Wisconsin or still
later.
48. _Belvidere, Allegany County._—In the American Geologist, vol.
XXXIII, 1904, page 60, an anonymous note states that some mastodon
remains, 3 ribs and 4 vertebræ, had been unearthed at this place by
James Johnson, of Bradford, and Alban Stewart, of the Smithsonian
Institution. Nothing was said as to the exact locality and geological
conditions. The time of the animal’s life could hardly have been earlier
than the last half of the Wisconsin stage.
49. _Pike, Wyoming County._—In 1876 (Guide to Genesee Valley Mus.,
Letchworth Park, Castile, N. Y., 1907, pp. 5–6), a part of a skull, the
tusks, a few vertebræ, and some foot-bones were found on the farm of
Charles Dennis, on the outskirts of the village of Pike. They were met
with in making a ditch and hence were probably in a marsh. Their
geological age is that of the last half of the Wisconsin stage or later.
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