page_title: Mastodon
hierarchical_section_title: Mastodon
caption_attribution_description: English: Right maxilla with 2nd and 3rd molars of American Mastodon Mammut americanum, on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Late Pleistocene in age. From Columbia County. Specimen UF 40001
context_page_description: Mastodons or Mastodonts are elephants of the extinct genus Mammut and the family Mammutidae. Mastodons became extinct about 11,000 years ago.
  Mastodons, with mammoths, modern elephants and various older families, are members of the order Proboscidea. As adults they stood between 2.5 and 3 meters at the shoulder and weighed between 3500 and 5400 kilograms.
  Mastodons were browsers on leaves and branches, as shown by their molar teeth.
context_section_description: Mastodons or Mastodonts are elephants of the extinct genus Mammut and the family Mammutidae. Mastodons became extinct about 11,000 years ago. 
  Mastodons, with mammoths, modern elephants and various older families, are members of the order Proboscidea. As adults they stood between 2.5 and 3 meters (8-10 feet) at the shoulder and weighed between 3500 and 5400 kilograms (4-6 tons). 
  Mastodons were browsers on leaves and branches, as shown by their molar teeth.
caption: American mastodon molars at the State Museum of Pennsylvania
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