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Mammuthus meridionalis
Extinct species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 of the Durfort mammoth [fr], National Museum of Natural History, France (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | Elephantidae |
Genus: | †Mammuthus |
Species: | †M. meridionalis |
Binomial name | |
†Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) | |
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