MASTODONS, MAMMOTHS AND OTHER PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS 8l 



OTHER MAMMALIAN REMAINS 



V u 1 p e s s p. Fox 



W. C. Redfield* 9 in a brief account of mammal remains from 



Broome county, New York, mentioned the discovery of bones which 



he ascribed to the genus V u 1 p e s. They were said to have been 



found in clay beneath drift, on the Delaware- Susquehanna divide 



near the New York-Pennsylvania state line. 



In the autumn of 1848 . . . [W. iC. Redfield] received from Major 

 Brown, engineer in chief of the New York and Erie Railroad, the lower 

 jaw and other bones of this mammal, partly inclosed in a matrix of fine 

 clay, in which material the whole had evidently been embedded. These 

 bones had been obtained by Mr Jonathan Case, in excavating for the line 

 of railway at the Gulf Summit, in Broome county, N. Y., at a depth of 40 

 feet below the natural surface, at an elevation of 1375 feet above tide. The 

 incumbent materials consisted, mainly, of gravelly clay and fragments of 

 the native rock which belongs to the Hamilton group of the New York 

 geologists, and are such as constitute the greater portion of the drift in 

 that region. 



The account states that a careful examination of the ground in 

 the vicinity gave no evidence that the bones had been buried by a 

 slide of surface materials; that the remains were of a true fossil 

 character was further evidenced by finding in the incumbent ma- 

 terials, a fragment of Corniferous (Onondaga) limestone, the out- 

 crop of which was 70 miles distant from the locality where the 

 bones were discovered. 



U r s u s sp. Fossil Bear • 



Excavations at Monroe, Orange county, in 1901 for the purpose 

 of recovering remains of a mastodon discovered first in 1888, 

 brought to light the proximal half of a femur of a large bear com- 

 parable in size and conformation to that of a grizzly. Specific 

 determination is impossible owing to the fragmentary condition of 

 the remains, but the size of the bone excludes the possibility of its 

 having belonged to the common black bear. It was found deep in 

 the muck of the pond bottom associated with remains of a mastodon 

 and a horse. 50 



Ursus americanius Pallas Black Bear (Plate 19) 

 W. M. Smallwood 51 reported briefly on the discovery in 1903 of 

 the remains of five or more bears with bones of deer from the 



"Amer. Assn. Adv. Sci., 1850, p. 255-56. 



60 Clarke and Matthew, Bui. Geol. Soc. Amer., 1920, 31:204. 



n Science, n. s. 1903, 18:26-27. 



