Mastodon
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| phylum | Chordata | The Mammutidae are a family of extinct proboscideans that lived between the Miocene and the Pleistocene or Holocene. Mammutidae classify taxa known by the common name mastodon, a name also used by Georges Cuvier for the genus Mastodon.
The American mastodon is the most recent and best-known species of the genus. They disappeared from North America as part of a mass extinction of most of the Pleistocene megafauna. For more information, please visit the Wikipedia Entry Get back to Proboscidea |
| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Proboscidea | |
| family | †Mammutidae | |
| genus | †Mammut | |
| Temporal range | Late Miocene Late Pleistocene |
Mastodon Skeleton
For all models, see Mastodon