SynapsidaProboscidea

Mammuthus primigenius

Woolly mammoth

Mammuthus primigenius skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, length ~5.2 m.
Scale bar = 50 centimeters
Taxon
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799)
Reconstructed length
~5.2 m (17 feet)
Sex
Male
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2016
Clade
  1. Synapsida
  2. Therapsida
  3. Mammalia
  4. Placentalia
  5. Afrotheria
  6. Proboscidea

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The classic woolly mammoth, a cold-adapted elephant of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe. Mammuthus primigenius had a domed head, small ears, a dense coat of fur, and long, strongly curved tusks; isolated island populations survived into the mid-Holocene.

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