1. Newbern, Hale County.—In August 1914, there was received at the U. S. National Museum, from Mr. J. W. White, of Newbern, a lower right last molar of a species of bison reported found in a creek, and an incisor tooth of a horse, which appear to be fossilized. The bison tooth had just begun to wear. The fore-and-aft length of the crown is 37 mm. The locality is somewhat outside of the range of Bison bison as given by Allen on his map (“American Bisons, Living and Extinct”). The fossil may well belong to some extinct species and have lived in that region in middle Pleistocene times.
MISSISSIPPI.
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1. Natchez, Adams County.—In Dr. M. W. Dickeson’s account of a collection of bones and teeth made near Natchez (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1846, p. 106) he included remains of the genus Bos. To-day these would be referred to the genus Bison.
In 1854 (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. V, art. III, p. 9, plate II, figs. 2–7), Leidy described and figured bovine teeth from Natchez, which he referred to Bison latifrons. Two of these teeth had been found, as Leidy stated, by M. W. Dickeson, in association with remains of Mastodon (Mammut), Equus, Ursus, Cervus (Odocoileus), Megalonyx, and Mylodon. Three others had been presented by W. H. Huntington, who discovered them in association with remains of Mammut americanum, Equus complicatus, and Felix atrox. Three of the teeth were upper molars, the others, lower molars. Leidy gave the measurements of most of these. The following measurements are those of an upper second and an upper third molar:
| Measurements of bovine teeth, in millimeters. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tooth. | Height. | Length. | Width. |
| Second molar | 67 | 37.5 | 27 |
| Third molar | 75 | 42.5 | 29 |
These teeth are considerably larger than those of Bison bison and B. occidentalis (Geol. Surv. Iowa, vol. XXIII, p. 320).
KENTUCKY.
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1. Woolper Creek?, Boone County.—The type of Bison latifrons is usually regarded as having been found at Bigbone Lick, but Leidy (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. VII, p. 372) stated it had been found a dozen miles or more north of Bigbone Lick, in the bed of a creek that enters into the Ohio River. It seems probable that this creek is the one named above.