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Mammuthus meridionalis
Extinct species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mammuthus meridionalis, sometimes called the southern mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth native to Eurasia, including Europe, during the Early Pleistocene, living from around 2.5 million years ago to 800,000 years ago.
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Mammuthus meridionalis | |
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Mounted skeleton, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | Elephantidae |
Genus: | †Mammuthus |
Species: | †M. meridionalis |
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†Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) | |
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