Mastodon
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mastodon-168-10949702
title:
Mastodon
text:
A mastodon is a member of the genus Mammut, which, strictly defined, was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths. Mammut is the type genus of the extinct family Mammutidae, which diverged from the ancestors of modern elephants at least 27–25 million years ago, during the Oligocene. Like other members of Mammutidae, the molar teeth of mastodons have zygodont morphology, whic
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of proboscideans
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
date created:
2003-02-24T20:57:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T03:08:28Z
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13
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