Mastodon
Mastodon Temporal range: Late Miocene - Late Pleistocene, 5.3–0.011 Ma
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Muntit M. americanum skelet (the "Warren mastodon"), AMNH | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Faimily: | †Mammutidae |
Genus: | †Mammut Blumenbach, 1799 |
Teep species | |
†Elephas americanum Kerr, 1792
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Species | |
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The inferred range o Mammut (Eurasie range includes that o Zygolophodon borsoni, that's genus assignment is uncertaint, an M. matthewi) | |
Synonyms | |
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Mastodons (Greek: μαστός "breast" an ὀδούς, "tuith") are ony speshies o extinct proboscideans in the genus Mammut (faimily Mammutidae), distantly relatit tae elephants, that inhabitit North an Central Americae in the late Miocene or late Pliocene up tae thair extinction at the end o the Pleistocene 10,000 tae 11,000 years aby.[1]
References
- ↑ Fiedal, Stuart (2009). "Sudden Deaths: The Chronology of Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction". In Haynes, Gary (ed.). American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene. Springer. pp. 21–37. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8793-6_2. ISBN 978-1-4020-8792-9. Archived frae the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019.