Mammut americanum

Mammut americanum, etiam mastodon nominatum, genus erat generibus elephantorum cognatum. Mammuta ex aevo Miocaeno vivebant et in America et in Eurasia. Ex circiter decem milia annorum exstincta sunt. Cave confundas mammuta cum mammuthis, qui ad elephantos pertinent.

Ossa Mammuti americani

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Eukaryota — 
Animalia — Chordata

Subphylum : Vertebrata 
Classis : Mammalia 
Ordo : Proboscidea 
Familia : Mammutidae 
Genus : Mammut 
Species : M. americanum 

Mammut americanum 
Kerr, 1792  

Bibliographia

• Jeffrey J. Saunders, "North American Mammutidae" in Jeheskel Shoshani, Pascal Tassy, eddd., The Proboscidea. Evolution and palaeoecology of the Elephants and their relatives (Oxoniae, 1996) pp. 271–279
• Kimberley Sawtelle, "Mastodont hair gives clues to habitat" in Mammoth Trumpet vol. 6 no. 4 (1991) p. 8
• Michael R. Waters et al., "Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington" in Science vol. 334 (2011) pp. 351–353
• Neal Woodman, Nancy Beavan Athfield, "Post-Clovis survival of American Mastodon in the southern Great Lakes Region of North America" in Quaternary Research vol. 72 (2009) pp. 359–363
• Neal Woodman, John W. Branstrator, "The Overmyer mastodon (Mammut americanum) from Fulton County, Indiana" in American Midland Naturalist vol. 159 (2008) pp. 125–146
• Grant D. Zazula et al., "American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change" in PNAS vol. 111 (2014) pp. 18460–18465

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Mammut americanum spectant.

Vide "Mammut americanum" apud Vicispecies.

stipula

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