SynapsidaProboscidea

Mammut americanum

American mastodon

Mammut americanum skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, length ~5 m.
Scale bar = 1 meter
Taxon
Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792)
Reconstructed length
~5 m (16 feet)
Sex
Male
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2017
Clade
  1. Synapsida
  2. Therapsida
  3. Mammalia
  4. Placentalia
  5. Afrotheria
  6. Proboscidea

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The American mastodon, a browsing proboscidean of Pleistocene North America. Mammut was stockier and lower-slung than mammoths or modern elephants, with straighter tusks and blunt, cusped molars suited to twigs and leaves rather than grass.

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