The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America (1910) (17918972716)

Title: The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America
Identifier: ageofmammalsineu00osbo (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil; Paleontology
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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PLEISTOCENE OF EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, AND NORTH AMERICA 489 horns of reindeer (R. caribou), of the mammoth (E. primigenius), of the mastodon (M. americanus), of the wapiti (C. canadensis), and of the l)caver (Castor fiber).^ Seventy feet above the lake (Lake Ontario), on Burhngton Bay, the western part of the lake, has been recorded the mammoth (Elephas jacksoni), a type probably referable to the true mammoth. The Alaskan fauna. — Alaska was free from glaciers except in its cen- tral mountainous belt. It presents a rich life in Pleistocene times. The bones
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Fig. 215. — Map of Alaska showing localities where Pleistocene mammalian fossils have been , discovered. After Dall and others. Quackenbush, American Museum Expedition, 1908. of mammals are found widely distributed; ^ their scattered remains occur throughout the unglaciated region of Alaska and adjacent Canadian terri- tory in several quite distinct deposits: first, in the black muck accumulated 1 Geology of Canada, 186.3, p. 914. ^ Dall, W. H., and Harris, G. D., Correlation Papers. The Neocene of North America U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. No. 84, 1892.

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