1. Bigbone Lick, Boone County.—The presence of reindeer bones at this place appears first to have been mentioned by William Cooper (Monthly Amer. Jour. Geol., vol. I, p. 207). He wrote that “antlers, jaws, and other remains of Cervus canadensis, C. virginianus, C. alces, and perhaps C. tarandus are not very rare.” Shaler (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. XIII, 1871, p. 167; Geol. Surv. Kentucky, n. s., vol. III, p. 197) reported that antlers of the caribou had been found by him here. A list of the species found at Bigbone Lick will be given on page [403].
FINDS OF MUSK-OXEN IN THE PLEISTOCENE OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
GRINNELL LAND.
Dumbbell Harbor.—In 1877 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. XX, p. 488), H. W. Fielden presented a paper on the post-Tertiary beds of Grinnell Land and north Greenland. He reported the discovery of a bone and a tooth of Ovibos moschatus and a bone of Phoca hispida in deposits at an elevation of 400 feet. This was in latitude 82° 30′ N. At another station, in latitude 82° 25′, Fielden procured fossil remains of Rangifer tarandus, Ovibos moschatus, and Phoca barbata. A report to the same effect was presented by Fielden and De Rance in 1878 (Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. Lond., vol. XXXIV, p. 566).
NEW JERSEY.
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1. Trenton, Mercer County.—In 1900 (Ann. Rep. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. for 1899, p. 16), Professor F. W. Putnam stated that Mr. Ernest Volk, of Trenton, had found in the Trenton gravels a part of the scapula of a musk-ox, now at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The part present is that bearing the glenoid cavity. This report is reprinted on pages 248 to 249 of Volk’s “Archæology of the Delaware Valley” (Papers Peabody Mus., vol. V). On page 111 of this work, Mr. Volk gives an account of the discovery of the bone, and illustrates it by plates LXXXVI and LXXXVII. The bone was identified by Putnam, Matthew, Allen, Boas, Lambe, True, and Lucas. Inasmuch as the comparison must have been made with the scapulas of Ovibos moschatus, the fossil probably belonged to this species.
PENNSYLVANIA.
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1. Pittston, Luzerne County.—In 1872 (Contrib. Ext. Fauna West. Terrs., p. 255, plate XXVIII, fig. 8), Leidy briefly described and figured a molar tooth which he referred to Bison latifrons. It had been found along the bank of Susquehanna River at Pittston, associated with the mastodon and a horse. Dr. J. A. Allen (Amer. Bisons, 1876, p. 12) expressed the opinion that the tooth belonged to some species of Ovibos. The present writer agrees that the tooth is not that of Bison. It seems to agree more nearly with teeth of Symbos cavifrons; but it differs from the teeth of that species in some respects. The writer has examined this tooth at the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. It is worn almost to the roots and is 34 mm. long and 32 mm. thick at the base of the hinder lobe. It agrees in form more closely with the first molar of both Ovibos and Symbos; but it is much larger than the same tooth in Ovibos moschatus and somewhat larger than that of Symbos cavifrons. The inner face of the anterior lobe is much more rounded than in Symbos, and the inner face of the hinder lobe forms an angle with the hinder face, instead of rounding into it, as it does in Symbos cavifrons. The teeth appear to have been packed together more closely, on the lingual side, than in Bison, Symbos, and Ovibos. The tooth is probably worthy of being given a new name.