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
7. _Freehold, Monmouth County._—Several mastodons have been reported
from this place. Professor Samuel Lockwood, in 1882 (Amer. Jour. Sci.,
vol. XXIV, p. 291; Pop. Sci. Monthly, vol. XXII, p. 341; Proc. Amer.
Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. XXXI, 1883, p. 365) reported that he had exhumed
a skeleton of a mastodon in a peat-swamp 2 miles west of the town. It
rested on hardpan, beneath the peat. Over the neck were sticks which had
been cut by beavers. Lockwood’s complete account was published in the
Popular Science Monthly, as quoted. The skeleton was in very bad
condition. The lower jaw is not mentioned. According to the New Jersey
map cited, the region about Freehold is occupied by the Pensauken
formation; according to Salisbury and Knapp the identity of this is not
wholly certain. It is impossible to say when the skeleton had fallen
there. Some one, probably G. H. Cook (Geol. New Jersey, 1868, p. 741),
stated that bones of mastodon had been found near Freehold by O. R.
Willis. Professor Valiant has told the writer of a milk-tooth of a
mastodon found at “Hartshorne’s mills” (Cook’s Geol. New Jersey, 1868,
p. 781).
8. _Englishtown, Monmouth County._—Mr. S. N. Rhoads (Mamm. Penn., N. J.,
p. 235) stated that Professor Valiant had informed him that remains of
mastodon had been found in marl at Englishtown. The relations of the
remains to the marl one can not now learn. According to the New Jersey
geologists, the region about the place is occupied by Pensauken; but one
can not be certain about the geological age of the mastodon.
9. _Marlboro, Monmouth County._—George H. Cook (Geol. New Jersey, 1868,
p. 741) reported that a portion of a jaw of a mastodon had been found in
a mill-race at Marlboro; but when this happened we are not told. Rhoads,
as cited, probably refers to the same specimen, where he mentions a
ramus of a young mastodon containing the milk dentition. This is in
Rutgers College. The gravels on the hills about Marlboro are referred by
the New Jersey geologists to the Pensauken. It is not unlikely, however,
that Cape May deposits are to be met with at lower levels.
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