234 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Order Ungulata ; Hoofed Mammals. 

 Family ELEPHANTiDiE ; Elephants. 

 1799. Genus Mamtnut* Blumenbach, Naturgesch., p. 698. 

 Mammut americanus (Kerr). Ohioan Mastodon. 



1792. Elephas americanus Kerr, Animal Kingdom, vol. i, p. 116. 



1798. Elephas amertcafius Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat., p. 149. 



1799. Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach, Naturgesch., p. 698. 

 1868. Trilophodon ohioticus Cope, Geol. New Jersey, p. 740. 



1 87 1. Mastodon americanus Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 12, p. 95 

 {et auct?). 



Type locality. — Big bone lick, Kentucky. 



Pleistocene. The most important records of the Mastodon in Pennsyl- 

 vania and New Jersey are as follows : 



Pennsylvania : 



Bedford C<7.— Bedford (Spgs?). See Mitchell's Appx. to Cuv. Theo. of 

 Earth, 1818, p. 363. 



Chester Co. — Michener records a tooth from White Clay Creek, near 

 Avondale, deposited in the West Chester Academy of Science. 



Franklin Co. — Near Chambersburg, a tooth. (See Phila. Med. and Phys. 

 Jour., vol. 2, pt. I, p. 157.) 



Luzerne Co. — Pittston, remains found in association with those of Bison, 

 Equus, etc. (See Leidy, Cont. Ext. Vert. Fauna Washn. Terr., 1873, p. 



255-) 

 Montgomery Co. — Port Kennedy, abundant bones and teeth. (See Cope, 



sup. cit.) 



? Co. — Dr. B. S. Barton, in Med. and Phys. Journal (1806), records 



a large tusk of a mastodon ( ?) found in the Chemung River, one of the 

 branches of the Susquehanna. 



New Jersey : 



Bergen Co. — Corona {fide W. S. Valiant, Curator of Rutgers' College Mu- 

 seum). 



Burlington Co. — (i) Near Pemberton, an almost complete skull, with 

 ribs, leg bones, etc., of a single individual, was exposed in the bed of a small 

 stream in 1877, and excavated by J. Coleman Saltar and Emlen McConnell. 

 The skull is in the museum of the Acad. Nat. Sci. (See Heilprin, Proc. A. 

 N. Sci. 1887, p. 414.) (2) Another skull is recorded from Pemberton. It 



♦ Cuvier's name, Mastodon, must give place to this, the aboriginal designation. Blumen- 

 bach's "fig. 19," in his Abbildungen, fixes its identity. 



