An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their remains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.
An extinct elephant having a straight back. They were slightly smaller than the Mammoth. Their teeth exhibit a pattern of cone-shaped cusps ideal for browsing. They ate leaves and branches gathered with their trunk from their forest habitat.
Belonging to the same family of the African elephant was bigger and got extincted 12,000 years ago.
extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
a large, extinct mammal resembling the elephant but larger
Mastodons predate their close relatives, mammoths and elephants. At a height of 10 feet, they were also smaller, and their teeth were shorter because mastodons ground, rather than sheared, their food. Mastodons were the dominant large mammals during the Miocene epoch, 20 million to five million years ago.
A very large mammal (now extinct) resembling the elephant, but having molar teeth. Panthera atrox A now-extinct lion that lived in North America during the Ice Age; a male Panthera atrox was 25 per cent larger than lions living today.
Mastodons were in Florida almost twice as long as mammoths and so they are more commonly found as fossils. They were generally shorter, thicker and more heavily built than the mammoths, and the males sometimes had two small lower tusks in addition to the large upper tusks. Both mastodons and mammoths were killed and eaten by early humans and today, more and more paleontologists and archaeologists believe hunting them may have caused their extinction in America. Complete mastodon teeth are very hard to find today in Florida, but bits of the enamel are often found in rivers and springs. These pieces may sometimes show beautiful colors and for this reason they are sometimes polished and made into jewelry.
An extinct straight-backed elephant slightly smaller than the Mammoth, which ate leaves and branches gathered with its trunk from their forest habitat.
Mastodons or Mastodonts are members of the extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth which belongs to the family Elephantidae.