A mastodon, from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast", and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth", is a member of the genus Mammut (German for 'mammoth'), which was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene.

2025年2月9日 · Mastodon, any of several extinct elephantine mammals (family Mammutidae, genus Mammut) that first appeared in the early Miocene and continued in various forms through the Pleistocene Epoch (from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). Learn more about mastodons in …

2019年7月1日 · Mastodons and Mammoths are often confused—which is understandable since they were both giant, shaggy, prehistoric elephants that roamed the plains of Pleistocene North America and Eurasia from two million to as recently as 20,000 years ago. Below you'll discover 10 fascinating facts about the Mastodon, the lesser-known half of this pachyderm ...

Mastodons are elephant-like mammals that were native to North and Central America approximately 10,000 years ago. These creatures were members of the taxonomical genus Mammut . The most well-known species is the American mastodon.

2022年5月4日 · Any species of extinct proboscideans belonging to the genus Mammut are popularly known as Mastodon. They lived during the Pleistocene epoch until the end of the Ice age and believed to have completely disappeared during the mass extinction of …

2021年10月6日 · Mastodon tooth in the Hagerman Fossil Beds collection. NPS Photo/Faith Brown. Quick Facts! Common name: American mastodon; Scientific name: Mammut americanum; Found at Hagerman: tusks and teeth; Present: mid-Pliocene to end-Pleistocene (10,500 years ago) Range: fossils have been found across North and Central America, from Alaska to Mexico

2016年11月1日 · Mastodons were prehistoric relatives of today's elephants. They were related to — and not the same animals as — woolly mammoths.

2019年1月24日 · The name mastodon literally means “breast tooth,” referring to the the “nipple”-shaped bumps along the top edges of these animals’ teeth. Mammoths, on the other hand, had ridged teeth—ideal for grazing and grinding tough grasses into small bits, like modern elephants.

4 天之前 · Instead, he found the bones of a 34,000-year-old mastodon — an elephant cousin that went extinct 10,000 years ago. According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, the jaw bone, which measures 30 inches long, belonged to a juvenile mastodon — an elephant-like animal believed to have roamed Iowa tens of thousands of years ago.

2024年11月3日 · A mastodon (mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is any proboscidean belonging to the extinct genus Mammut. Mastodons inhabited North and Central America from the late Miocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.