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Mastodon
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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]
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Mastodon | |
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Muntit M. americanum skelet (the "Warren mastodon"), AMNH | |
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Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Faimily: | †Mammutidae |
Genus: | †Mammut Blumenbach, 1799 |
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†Elephas americanum Kerr, 1792 | |
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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) | |
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