Mammal
American mastodon
Its molars had ridges different from the tooth surfaces of elephants and mammoths.
The American mastodon and the mammoth are not two names for the same animal.
Three stages. One companion.
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American mastodon at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Neogene / Quaternary
- Group
- Mammutidae
- Mammutids
- Fossil locations
- New York (state)
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real American mastodon
It is the best-known species of Mammut. With a sturdy skeleton, it ate mainly leaves, fruit and woody plant parts. It should not be confused with mammoths, which belong to the genus Mammuthus.
Its molars had ridges unlike the tooth surfaces of elephants and mammoths. Those ridges are linked to a diet rich in leaves and woody material, making the teeth particularly useful clues to the mastodon’s way of life.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Mammut
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- Mastodon
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- Mammutidae
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- Elephants
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