x 



POSTGLACIAL BIOTA OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION 153 



b. Other Vertebrates 



Cervus canadensis. 106 Jamestown, Chautauqua County, in muck a little 

 below present level of Lake Chautauqua, associated with the mastodon; 

 Seneca, Ontario County, beneath marl and diatoftiaceous earth about 3 feet 

 from the surface, associated with mastodon; Farmington, Ontario County, 107 

 in cedar swamp, in peat, 6 to 18 inches beneath the surface; New Hudson, 

 Alleghany County (vide Hall). 



New Hudson, Alleghany Co. 1073 Horns of elk and deer were found many 

 years ago at New Hudson, four miles from Cuba, at the summit level of the 

 old Genesee Valley canal, in a deposit of muck 12 feet beneath the surface, 

 associated with pieces of wood gnawed by beavers. 



Odocoileus virginianus. Cattaraugus, Green, 108 and Alleghany counties 

 (Hall). 



Platygonus compressus. 109 The remains of this animal were found by Prof. 

 Henry A. Ward, many years ago, in a gravel bank excavated for a railroad 

 near Rochester. This is the northernmost record for any member of this 

 family. There seems to be no question concerning the occurrence of this 

 extinct peccary during post- Wisconsin time. 



Rangifer tarandus. The barren-ground caribou is reported from Sing 

 Sing, New York, where antlers were found in the bed of an ancient lake (now a 

 deep peat deposit) 6 feet below the surface. 110 



Castoroides ohioensis m has been reported from a swamp near Clyde, Wayne 

 County, at an elevation of the Ridge Road (Iroquois Beach). The strata 

 exhibit the following sections: 



1. Muck and soil 2 feet 



2. Fine sand with occasional bands of clay, with alternating layers of sand, twigs, 

 leaves and other fragments of vegetable matter 2-3 feet 



3. Much peaty soil, composed of fragments of wood, bark, leaves, and trunks of trees 



of large size. Skull of Castoroides in this stratum 4 feet 



4. Fine sand with shells of Planorbis, Valvata, Cyclas, etc 2-3 feet 



5. Ancient drift 



Elephas columbi. 112 Two specimens of this elephant were found several 

 years ago near Irondequoit River in Monroe County, ten miles east of Roches- 

 ter. They were in a deposit of sand 4 feet below the surface, partly under the 



106 Clarke, op. cit. 



"'Hall, 6th An. Rep. State Geol. N. Y., 1886 (1887), p. 39. 

 ,07a HaU, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V, p. 391, 1846. 

 108 HaU, Geol. N. Y., part IV, 1843, pp. 364, 367. 

 "'Leidy, Trans. Wagner Inst. Sci., II, pp. 41-50. 

 "°Leidy, Proc. Phil. Acad., 1859, p. 194. 



m Wyman, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., II, p. 138; Hall, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 V, p. 385-391. 



112 Miller, Bull. N. Y. State Mus., VT, No. 29, p. 373. 



