Michigan Academician articles from September 2003

Michigan Academician archives from September 2003

Michigan's ice age behemoths: selected papers on mastodonts and mammoths from the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION 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...

A census of mastodon remains in Michigan.
September 22, 2003... Originally published in the Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, arid Letters 25, Pt. 3 (1940): 481-90. Editor's Comments. Archie MacAlpin had a distinguished career as a professor of geology at the University of Notre Dame in...

The mastodons and mammoths of Michigan.
September 22, 2003... Originally published in Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Pt. 1(1962): 101-33. Editor's Comments. Margaret (Skeels) Stevens produced this paper while a student at the University of Michigan. She was a productive...

A 24,000-year-old Jefferson mammoth from Midland County, Michigan *.
September 22, 2003... Originally published in the Michigan Academician Vol. III, No. 2 (Fall 1970): 95-99 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...

Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the lower Peninsula of Michigan.
September 22, 2003... Originally published in the Michigan Academician Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (Summer 1986): 431-63 Editor's Comments. J. A. Holman is presently Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Michigan State University Museum and Daniel O. Fisher...

Vegetation associated with the Heisler mastodon site, calhoun county, Michigan.
September 22, 2003... Originally published in the Michigan Academician Vol. XIX, No. 1 (Winter 1987): 133-40 Editor's Comments. Rachel E. Bearss was an undergraduate student at Alma College when this paper was written. This publication puts the Heisler...

A report on the Shelton Mastodon Site and a discussion of the numbers of mastodons and mammoths in Michigan.
September 22, 2003... Originally published in Michigan Academician Vol. XXI, No. 2 (Spring 1989): 115-32 Editor's Comments. J. Shoshani, formerly a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, is now associated with the University if Asmara, Asmara, Eritria....

New records of Michigan Pleistocene vertebrates with comments on the Mason-Quimby line.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2003... Originally published in the Michigan Academician Vol. XXIII, No. 3 (Summer 1991): 273-83 Editor's Comments. Interest concerning the relationships between mastodonts and mammoths and early humans in Michigan was sparked by the provocative...

Pleistocene Proboscidean sites in Michigan: new records and an update on published sites.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2003... Originally published in the Michigan Academician Vol. XXV, No. 4 (Summer 1993): 443-90 Editor's Comments. Laura Abraczinskas is presently the Collection Manager of the Natural History Divison of the Michigan State University Museum. The...

Michigan's ice age behemoths.(mammoths and mastodons)
September 22, 2003... DISCUSSION 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 status of Emydoidea hutchisoni Holman, 1995 (Testudines: Emydidae). (Note).
September 22, 2003... 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 EP]) of Nebraska. Later, in 2002, I identified additional "Emydoidea hutchchisoni"...