Mastodons

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Mastodons, of the genus Mammut, lived in America until roughly 10,000 years ago. They resembled elephants and were distantly related to mammoths, but were smaller and had shorter tusks and flatter heads.

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Sara Tate

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Mastodons, of the genus Mammut, lived in America until roughly 10,000 years ago. They resembled elephants and were distantly related to mammoths, but were smaller and had shorter tusks and flatter heads.

Mastodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mastodons are any species of extinct mammutid proboscideans in the genus Mammut, distantly related to elephants, that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
The Fall of the Carnivorous Mastodon - Wired

Extinction sucks. Only yesterday, in geologic terms, did mastodons, sabercats, giant ground sloths, and their charismatic Ice Age contemporaries roam North America.
http://www.wired.com/2012/10/the-meat-eating-mastodon-that-never-was
Mammut - Prehistoric-Wildlife

Information about the prehistoric elephant Mammut and other prehistoric creatures.
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/m/mammut.html
10 Facts About Mastodons - About

Mastodons are comparatively less well-known than Mammoths, but they're equally important from an evolutionary perspective. Here are 10 facts you may or may not have known about these shaggy pachyderms.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/otherprehistoriclife/ss/10-Facts-About-Mastodons.htm
Mastodons - Discovery

Huge American mastodons loved to roam the bogs and wetlands of ancient New York and New Jersey.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/prehistoric-new-york-mastodons/
Mastodon - New World Encyclopedia

Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant-like mammals comprising the family Mammutidae (syn. Mastodontidae) of the order Proboscidea, characterized by long tusks, large pillar-like legs, and a flexible trunk or proboscis.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mastodon
Science Word of the Day: Mastodon - National Geographic

I have a soft spot for the American mastodon. The beast lived at the same time as the famous woolly mammoth, yet the mastodon is not nearly as popular as its tundra-living cousin.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/27/science-word-of-the-day-mastodon/
BBC Nature - American Mastodon Videos, News and Facts

The elephant-like American mastodon was a distant relative of the mammoth, with whom it shared its ice age home.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/American_mastodon
Difference Between a Mammoth and a Mastodon - Livescience

Though similar in appearance, there are many differences between mammoths and mastodons.
http://www.livescience.com/34446-mammoth-or-mastodon.html
American Mastodon - Mammut americanum - Encyclopedia of Life

Descriptions and articles about the American Mastodon, scientifically known as Mammut americanum in the Encyclopedia of Life.
http://eol.org/pages/4454807/details
What's the Difference Between a Mammoth and a Mastodon? - Mental Floss

They might look alike, but these hairy giants were actually very different creatures.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54120/whats-difference-between-mammoth-and-mastodon

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Mastodon Temporal range: Late Miocene – early Holocene 8–0.011 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N (Possible earliest record of up to ~10 Ma)

Mounted M. americanum skeleton ("Warren mastodon"), American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	†Mammutidae
Genus:	†Mammut Blumenbach, 1799
Type species
†Elephas americanus (= †Mammut americanum) Kerr, 1792
Other species
†M. matthewi Osborn, 1921 †M. vexillarius Matthew, 1930 †M. raki Frick, 1933 †M. nevadanum Stock, 1936 †M. cosoensis Schultz, 1937 †M? furlongi Shotwell & Russell, 1963 †M. pacificum Dooley et al., 2019 Species pending reassessment †M. borsoni Hays, 1834 †M. obliquelophus Mucha, 1980 †M. lufugense Zhang, 1982 †M. zhupengensis Zhang et. al., 1991
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Harpagmotherium Fischer von Waldheim, 1808 Mastotherium Fischer von Waldheim, 1814 Mastodon Cuvier, 1817 Tetracaulodon Godman, 1830 Missourium Koch, 1840 Leviathan Koch, 1841 Pliomastodon Osborn, 1926 Synonyms of M. americanum Elephas americanus Kerr, 1792 Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach, 1799 Elephas macrocephalus Camper, 1802 Harpagmotherium canadense Fischer de Waldheim, 1808 Elephas mastodontus Barton, 1810 Mastotherium megalodon Fischer de Waldheim, 1814 Tapirus mastodontoides Harlan, 1825 Tetracaulodon mastodontoideum Godman, 1830 Mastodon ohioticum Eichwald, 1832 Mastodon cuvieri Hays, 1834 Mastodon jeffersoni Hays, 1834 Tetracaulodon collinsii Hays, 1834 Tetracaulodon godmani Hays, 1834 Tetracaulodon tapyroides Hays, 1834 Elephas ohioticus de Blainville, 1839–1864 Missourium kochii Koch, 1840 Leviathan missourii Koch, 1840 Tetracaulodon osagii Koch, 1841 Tetracaulodon kochii Koch, 1841 Tetracaulodon bucklandii Grant, 1842 Missourium theristocaulodon Koch, 1843 Mastodon rugatum Koch, 1845 Elephas rupertianus Richardson, 1854 Trilophodon ohioticus Falconer, 1868 Mammut progenium Hay, 1914 Mastodon americanus plicatus Osborn, 1926 Mammut oregonense Hay, 1926 Mastodon moodiei Barbour, 1931 Mastodon americanus alaskensis Frick, 1933 Mastodon acutidens Osborn, 1936 Synonyms of M. matthewi Mastodon matthewi Osborn, 1921 Pliomastodon sellardsi Simpson, 1930 Pliomastodon adamsi Hibbard, 1944 Synonyms of M. vexillarius Pliomastodon vexillarius Matthew, 1930 Synonyms of M. raki Mastodon raki Frick, 1933 Synonyms of M. nevadanum Pliomastodon nevadanus Stock, 1936 Synonyms of M. cosoensis Pliomastodon cosoensis Schultz, 1937 Synonyms of "M." borsoni Mastodon vellavus Aymard, 1847 Mastodon vialleti Aymard, 1847 Mastodon buffonis Pomel, 1848 Mastodon affinis Pomel, 1859 Zygolophodon borsoni Osborn, 1926 Mastodon pavlowi Osborn, 1936 Mammut shansiense Chow & Chang, 1961 Synonyms of "M." obliquelophus M. praetypicum? Schlesinger, 1917

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Mastodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mastodons are any species of extinct mammutid proboscideans in the genus Mammut, distantly related to elephants, that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
The Fall of the Carnivorous Mastodon - Wired

Extinction sucks. Only yesterday, in geologic terms, did mastodons, sabercats, giant ground sloths, and their charismatic Ice Age contemporaries roam North America.
http://www.wired.com/2012/10/the-meat-eating-mastodon-that-never-was
Mammut - Prehistoric-Wildlife

Information about the prehistoric elephant Mammut and other prehistoric creatures.
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/m/mammut.html
10 Facts About Mastodons - About

Mastodons are comparatively less well-known than Mammoths, but they're equally important from an evolutionary perspective. Here are 10 facts you may or may not have known about these shaggy pachyderms.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/otherprehistoriclife/ss/10-Facts-About-Mastodons.htm
Mastodons - Discovery

Huge American mastodons loved to roam the bogs and wetlands of ancient New York and New Jersey.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/prehistoric-new-york-mastodons/
Mastodon - New World Encyclopedia

Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant-like mammals comprising the family Mammutidae (syn. Mastodontidae) of the order Proboscidea, characterized by long tusks, large pillar-like legs, and a flexible trunk or proboscis.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mastodon
Science Word of the Day: Mastodon - National Geographic

I have a soft spot for the American mastodon. The beast lived at the same time as the famous woolly mammoth, yet the mastodon is not nearly as popular as its tundra-living cousin.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/27/science-word-of-the-day-mastodon/
BBC Nature - American Mastodon Videos, News and Facts

The elephant-like American mastodon was a distant relative of the mammoth, with whom it shared its ice age home.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/American_mastodon
Difference Between a Mammoth and a Mastodon - Livescience

Though similar in appearance, there are many differences between mammoths and mastodons.
http://www.livescience.com/34446-mammoth-or-mastodon.html
American Mastodon - Mammut americanum - Encyclopedia of Life

Descriptions and articles about the American Mastodon, scientifically known as Mammut americanum in the Encyclopedia of Life.
http://eol.org/pages/4454807/details
What's the Difference Between a Mammoth and a Mastodon? - Mental Floss

They might look alike, but these hairy giants were actually very different creatures.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54120/whats-difference-between-mammoth-and-mastodon

Mastodon Temporal range: Late Miocene – early Holocene 8–0.011 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N (Possible earliest record of up to ~10 Ma)

Mounted M. americanum skeleton ("Warren mastodon"), American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	†Mammutidae
Genus:	†Mammut Blumenbach, 1799
Type species
†Elephas americanus (= †Mammut americanum) Kerr, 1792
Other species
†M. matthewi Osborn, 1921 †M. vexillarius Matthew, 1930 †M. raki Frick, 1933 †M. nevadanum Stock, 1936 †M. cosoensis Schultz, 1937 †M? furlongi Shotwell & Russell, 1963 †M. pacificum Dooley et al., 2019 Species pending reassessment †M. borsoni Hays, 1834 †M. obliquelophus Mucha, 1980 †M. lufugense Zhang, 1982 †M. zhupengensis Zhang et. al., 1991
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Harpagmotherium Fischer von Waldheim, 1808 Mastotherium Fischer von Waldheim, 1814 Mastodon Cuvier, 1817 Tetracaulodon Godman, 1830 Missourium Koch, 1840 Leviathan Koch, 1841 Pliomastodon Osborn, 1926 Synonyms of M. americanum Elephas americanus Kerr, 1792 Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach, 1799 Elephas macrocephalus Camper, 1802 Harpagmotherium canadense Fischer de Waldheim, 1808 Elephas mastodontus Barton, 1810 Mastotherium megalodon Fischer de Waldheim, 1814 Tapirus mastodontoides Harlan, 1825 Tetracaulodon mastodontoideum Godman, 1830 Mastodon ohioticum Eichwald, 1832 Mastodon cuvieri Hays, 1834 Mastodon jeffersoni Hays, 1834 Tetracaulodon collinsii Hays, 1834 Tetracaulodon godmani Hays, 1834 Tetracaulodon tapyroides Hays, 1834 Elephas ohioticus de Blainville, 1839–1864 Missourium kochii Koch, 1840 Leviathan missourii Koch, 1840 Tetracaulodon osagii Koch, 1841 Tetracaulodon kochii Koch, 1841 Tetracaulodon bucklandii Grant, 1842 Missourium theristocaulodon Koch, 1843 Mastodon rugatum Koch, 1845 Elephas rupertianus Richardson, 1854 Trilophodon ohioticus Falconer, 1868 Mammut progenium Hay, 1914 Mastodon americanus plicatus Osborn, 1926 Mammut oregonense Hay, 1926 Mastodon moodiei Barbour, 1931 Mastodon americanus alaskensis Frick, 1933 Mastodon acutidens Osborn, 1936 Synonyms of M. matthewi Mastodon matthewi Osborn, 1921 Pliomastodon sellardsi Simpson, 1930 Pliomastodon adamsi Hibbard, 1944 Synonyms of M. vexillarius Pliomastodon vexillarius Matthew, 1930 Synonyms of M. raki Mastodon raki Frick, 1933 Synonyms of M. nevadanum Pliomastodon nevadanus Stock, 1936 Synonyms of M. cosoensis Pliomastodon cosoensis Schultz, 1937 Synonyms of "M." borsoni Mastodon vellavus Aymard, 1847 Mastodon vialleti Aymard, 1847 Mastodon buffonis Pomel, 1848 Mastodon affinis Pomel, 1859 Zygolophodon borsoni Osborn, 1926 Mastodon pavlowi Osborn, 1936 Mammut shansiense Chow & Chang, 1961 Synonyms of "M." obliquelophus M. praetypicum? Schlesinger, 1917

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Mastodons

Mastodons, of the genus Mammut, lived in America until roughly 10,000 years ago. They resembled elephants and were distantly related to mammoths, but were smaller and had shorter tusks and flatter heads.

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