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. _Mannington Township, Salem County._—In Rutgers College, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, is a mounted mastodon said to have been found on
the Hackett farm, Chestnut Hill, in Mannington. This township is
northwest of the town of Salem. It is stated that about 75 per cent of
the bones are present in the mounted skeleton; the missing parts are
restored in plaster or some other material. Rhoads (Mamm, Penn. N. J.,
1903, p. 235) was informed by Professor Valiant that this skeleton was
excavated from a bed of gray marl, at a depth of from 6 to 8 feet below
the surface. According to Lewis and Kümmel’s geological map of New
Jersey, 1912, this region appears to be overlain by the Cape May
formation (see also Salisbury and Knapp, vol. VIII, Final Rep. Geol.
Surv. New Jersey, p. 194).
2. _Harrisonville, Gloucester County._—In 1869, Cope (Cook’s Geol. New
Jersey, p. 740) stated that a mastodon had been found at this place, but
no details were furnished. Harrisonville is on Oldman’s Creek, and along
this are distributed, according to the map above cited, materials
belonging to the Pensauken formation. Bridgeton, Pensauken, and Cape May
deposits are, however, not far away (Salisbury and Knapp, op. cit., pp.
31, 96, 97, 194, 198).
3. _Mullica Hill, Gloucester County._—In Cook’s “Geology of New Jersey,”
Cope reported also that mastodon remains had been found at Mullica Hill,
on Raccoon Creek, but here again no details were given. Following the
map cited, and Salisbury and Knapp, page 194, we find Cape May deposits
at the town, but Pensauken is not far away, and it is not known exactly
where the mastodon remains were met with.
4. _Woodbury, Gloucester County._—Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads (Mamm. Penn. N.
J., 1903, p. 235) recorded the discovery of a mastodon near Woodbury. It
was found on Mantua Creek and was in the possession of Dr. J. C. Curry,
of Woodbury. Mantua Creek flows south of Woodbury, about 2.5 miles
distant. On the map cited the region is indicated as being covered
mostly by Pensauken materials, but there is some Cape May (Salisbury and
Knapp, pp. 100, 191). The Cape May is on a lower level along the
streams.
From Dr. Curry the writer learns that the remains of this mastodon
passed into the possession of Mr. Herbert Twells, of Woodbury, New
Jersey. Neither of these gentlemen is able to furnish any further
information.
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