Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Alternative combination: Mammut raki
Full reference: C. Frick. 1933. New remains of trilophodont-tetrabelodont mastodons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59(9):505-652
Belongs to Mastodon according to C. Frick 1933
See also Lucas and Morgan 1999 and Tedford 1981
Sister taxa: Mammut americanum, Mammut borsoni, Mammut cosoensis, Mammut floridanum, Mammut furlongi, Mammut matthewi, Mammut pacificus, Mastodon (Tetralophodon), Mammut mirificum, Mastodon argentinus, Mastodon spenceri, Mastodon waringi, Mastodon lydekkeri, Mastodon rectus, Mastodon maderianus, Mastodon tarijensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Elephant Butte Reservoir, which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Palomas Formation of New Mexico
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Elephant Butte Reservoir
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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