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Mastodon spenceri

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae

Taxonomy
Mastodon spenceri was named by Fourtau (1918). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Wadi Moghra, which is in a MN 4 marginal marine sandstone in the Moghara Formation of Egypt.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. euhypodon, M. pentelici

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Mastodon spenceri Fourtau p. 89 figs. Fig. 60-61

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderElephantiformesTassy 1988
—ElephantimorphaTassy and Shoshani 1997
—MammutidaTassy and Shoshani 1997
familyMammutidaeHay 1922
genusMastodonBlumenbach 1799
speciesspenceri

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Mastodon spenceri Fourtau 1918
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingg
Diet: browserg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-31 15:16:05
Modified: 2009-01-04 12:24:42
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Carroll 1988

Age range: MN 4 or 16.90000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MN 416.9 - 15.97Egypt Mastodon spenceri (type locality: 53970)