Michigan Academician articles from September 2002

Michigan Academician archives from September 2002

Michigan's Ice Age behemoths: introduction.
September 22, 2002... For many years the annual meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters has been a golden place to exchange ideas about the Pleistocene flora and fauna of the state. And no wonder, for because of its glacial history, Michigan...

A census of mastodon remains in Michigan.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. Archie MacAlpin had a distinguished career as a professor of geology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. In the paper to follow he not only reported mastodont remains from 36 Michigan counties but commented on...

The mastodons and mammoths of Michigan.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. Margaret (Skeels) Stevens produced this paper while a student at the University of Michigan. She was a productive scholar and teacher at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, before her recent retirement. This is the seminal...

A 24,000-year-old Jefferson mammoth from Midland County, Michigan*.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. Ronald O. Kapp, a University of Michigan Ph.D, former President of the Michigan Academy, and Provost at Alma College (before his untimely death in 1990), was a dominant force in the Pleistocene paleontology in Michigan for...

Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the lower peninsula of Michigan.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. J. A. Holman is presently Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Michigan State University Museum and Daniel O. Fisher is a professor and curator of paleontology in the University of Michigan Museum of...

Vegetation associated with the Heisler Mastodon Site, Calhoun County, Michigan.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. Rachel E. Bearss was an undergraduate student at Alma College when this paper was written. This publication puts the Heisler mastodont into detailed contest with the environment in which it lived and died. It is also a good...

A report on the Shelton Mastodon Site and a discussion of the numbers of mastodons and mammoths in Michigan.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. J. Shoshani, formerly a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, is now associated with the University if Asmara, Asmara, Eritria. An energetic researcher on both fossil and modern proboscideans, Dr. Shoshani...

New records of Michigan Pleistocene vertebrates with comments on the Mason-Quimby Line.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. Interest concerning the relationships between mastodonts and mammoths and early humans in Michigan was sparked by the provocative papers of two authors, Ronald Mason (1958) and George I. Quimby (1958, 1960). These authors...

Pleistocene proboscidean sites in Michigan: new records and an update on published sites.
September 22, 2002... Editor's Comments. Laura Abraczinskas is presently the Collection Manager of the Natural History Divison of the Michigan State University Museum. The paper to follow was part of her masters thesis in zoology at Michigan State University. This...

Michigan's Ice Age Behemoths: discussion.
September 22, 2002... The Pleistocene Epoch lasted about 1.8 million years (Gradstein and Ogg 1999 [and many other sources]); but proboscideans are known in Michigan for only about the last 24,000 years of the Pleistocene. These occurrences are in the form of a...

Note: the status of Emydoidea hutchisoni Holman, 1995 (Testudines:Emydidae).
September 22, 2002... In 1995 I described a new species of turtle, Emydoidea hutchisoni, from the Middle Miocene (Barstovian North American Land Mammal Age[16.0 to 11.5 million BP]) of Nebraska. Later, in 2002, I identified additional "Emydoidea hutchchisoni"...