A Cranium of the Extinct Moose, Cervalces, from the Quarternary of Northern Indiana

Abstract

A portion of a moose skull belonging to the extinct genus Cervalces was found by Mr. Alton Bernhardt, of North Liberty, Indiana, in the headwaters of the Kankakee River. The skull was reported uncovered in a marl-like soil about 6 feet below the surface at the time a drainage ditch was being dug through Potato Creek, about three quarters of a mile north and a mile east of North Liberty in St. Joseph County. The specimen, U. S. N. M. no. 15494, collected in December of 1936, was recently presented to the U. S. National Museum through the kind offices of Dr. Marcus W. Lyon of South Bend. This is the second find of Cervalces in the state of Indiana. A right antler from the White River in the southern part of the state was described by E. S. Riggs2 in 1936.