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
12. _Manasquan Inlet, Monmouth County._—In 1882 (Amer. Jour. Sci., vol.
XXIV, p. 294), Lockwood stated that he had known of a tusk and some
other bones of a mastodon which had been uncovered by sea-waves in a
storm about 15 miles south of Long Branch. In another place (Pop. Sci.
Monthly, vol. XXII, p. 344) he spoke of a tusk which had been thus
unearthed in Monmouth County. The place was evidently north of Manasquan
Inlet.
Salisbury and Knapp (Geol. Surv. New Jersey, vol. VIII) describe the
region along the coast from Manasquan River to Long Branch as presenting
Cape May deposits at elevations below 40 or 45 feet, while modern beach
deposits occupy some areas below this level. It seems, however that some
of these supposed Recent materials contain extinct vertebrates and are
older than they appear to be.
13. _Verona, Essex County._—George H. Cook (Geol. New Jersey, 1868, p.
741) stated that a very perfect tooth of a mastodon had been picked up
near Verona. This town is on Peckman Brook, and in the valley of this
stream there is some stratified drift which is referred to the
Wisconsin. Too little is known about the history of the tooth to enable
one to determine with confidence its geological age.
14. _Rockport, Warren County_ (_Schooley’s Mountain_).—In 1828 (Amer.
Jour. Sci., vol. XIV, p. 188), Thomas P. Stewart reported the discovery
of what he called a mammoth on Schooley’s Mountain. It was met with in
1827, in excavating the Morris Canal. The locality must therefore be
west of Musconetcong River and probably not far from Rockport. The bones
lay at a depth of about 3 feet. The animal was evidently a mastodon. A
tooth, a lower last molar, measured 3.5 inches in width and 7 inches in
length. The enamel was well preserved. Other bones were found.
15. _Hackettstown, Warren County._—In the fourth volume of the
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1844, on pages 118 to
121, there is an account, by J. B. Maxwell, of the discovery of the
remains of 5 mastodons near Hackettstown, about halfway on the road to
Vienna. In this vicinity is a ridge of gneiss which runs in a
northeast-and-southwest direction. On this ridge is a pond-like
depression about 40 yards in length by 25 yards in width, which at one
time was a marsh. After it was drained the owner began digging in it and
discovered the mastodon skeletons. They are described as consisting of
one animal pretty large, three of smaller size, and one a calf. From
these were obtained a skeleton which became the property of Harvard
University and has since been known as the Cambridge skeleton. It is
described by Warren in both editions of his “Monograph on the Mastodon.”
Jackson (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. II, p. 60) described these
skeletons. A lower jaw of a young individual had two alveoli for lower
tusks, 0.75 inch in diameter.
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