Mastodon
Appearance
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Mastodon | |
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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 | |
The inferred range o Mammut (Eurasie range includes that o Zygolophodon borsoni, that's genus assignment is uncertaint, an M. matthewi) | |
Synonyms | |
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
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ 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.
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- Mastodons
- Messinian first appearances
- Miocene proboscideans
- Pleistocene extinctions
- Pleistocene proboscideans
- Pliocene proboscideans
- Miocene mammals o North Americae
- Prehistoric mammals o North Americae
- Seembols o Michigan
- Extinct ainimals o Canadae
- Palaeontology in Michigan
- Taxa named bi Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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