Mammut Blumenbach 1799 (mastodon)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae

Synonyms: Leviathan Koch 1841, Mastodon Cuvier 1817, Missourium Koch 1840, Pliomastodon Osborn 1926, Tetracaulodon Godman 1830

Parent taxon: Mammutidae according to W. D. Lambert and J. Shoshani 1998

See also Abel 1919, Abraczinskas 1993, Alroy 2002, Carroll 1988, Dooley et al. 2019, Eshelman et al. 2018, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Konidaris and Tsoukala 2019, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambert et al. 2010, Leidy 1860, Leidy 1873, Loomis 1918, Lucas and Morgan 1999, Lydekker 1880, Madden 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Miller 1987, Nordmann 1860, Oliver Schneider 1926, Osborn 1918, Owen 1848, Shoshani et al. 1989, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005, Stefani 1916, Tedford et al. 1987, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Wilson 1967

Sister taxa: Eozygodon, Eozygodontinae, Losodokodon, Mammutinae, Sinomammut, Zygolophodon

Subtaxa: Mammut americanum Mammut borsoni Mammut cosoensis Mammut floridanum Mammut furlongi Mammut matthewi Mammut mirificum Mammut pacificus Mastodon (Tetralophodon) Mastodon argentinus Mastodon lydekkeri Mastodon maderianus Mastodon raki Mastodon rectus Mastodon spenceri Mastodon tarijensis Mastodon waringi

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Bolivia (5 collections), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Yukon), Mexico (7), Slovakia (1), United States (410: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia)

• Blancan of United States (10: California, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1), India (1)

• Pliocene of Bulgaria (1), China (2), Egypt (1), Greece (14), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (3), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (5), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (19), United States (1: Texas)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (22: Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1), Kazakhstan (1)

• Neogene of Argentina (1), Indonesia (1), Myanmar (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Georgia (1), Greece (10), India (2), Kazakhstan (2), Moldova (7), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Spain (3), Syria (1), Thailand (1), Ukraine (6), United States (32: California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Angola (1)

Total: 608 collections including 619 occurrences

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