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°

by Oliver Perry Hay

INDIANA.

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1. Evansville, Vanderburg County.—Tapir remains have been found at only one place in Indiana, viz, in the banks of the Ohio River at the mouth of Pigeon Creek, a short distance below Evansville. A single lower hinder molar formed part of a collection made by Mr. Francis A. Lincke and described by Leidy (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, p. 199). This tooth was figured by Leidy in 1860 (Holmes’s “Post-Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina,” p. 107, plate XVII, figs. 9, 10) under the name Tapirus haysii. Associated with the tooth were remains of Megalonyx jeffersonii, a bison of probably an extinct species, the Virginia deer, the horse known as Equus complicatus, and the large extinct wolf Ænocyon dirus.

On page [32] is discussed the probable age of the bone-bed which contained the animals named above. It is concluded that the age is possibly the Aftonian, but more probably the Sangamon. This species of tapir has been found at Bigbone Lick, Kentucky, between Louisville and Cincinnati, in deposits containing Equus complicatus, 2 extinct species of Bison, deer, etc. The deposits lie on Illinoian drift and are in part, at least, of Sangamon age.