Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Full reference: A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614
Belongs to Mammut according to A. C. Dooley et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Mammut americanum, Mammut borsoni, Mammut cosoensis, Mammut floridanum, Mammut furlongi, Mammut matthewi, Mastodon lydekkeri, Mastodon argentinus, Mastodon rectus, Mastodon maderianus, Mastodon spenceri, Mastodon raki, Mammut mirificum, Mastodon tarijensis, Mastodon (Tetralophodon), Mastodon waringi
Type specimen: WSC 18743, a partial skeleton (Partial skeleton including largely complete cranium and mandible, with left and right M2/m2 and M3/m3, complete right tusk, distal 1/3 of left tusk, nearly comp). Its type locality is Diamond Valley Lake West Dam, which is in a Rancholabrean terrestrial horizon in California.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (36: California, Idaho collections)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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