American Mastodon, Mastodon, Mastodon
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Cenozoic - Quaternary - Pleistocene
label: Notes
content: This upper molar from an American Mastodon. The Mastodon is an extinct species and a distant relative to mammoths and other elephants. The American Mastodon lived from the Early Miocene to Holocene (23 million years ago to 10,000 years ago). The molar's three cone ridges with an open valley between each cone make it look much like a mountain range. As herbivores, mastodons ate only plants. The molars ground down plant material such as twigs, cones, and leaves. A worn out molar would fall out at the front of the jaw and a new molar from the back would move forward into the open spot. This molar is about 9.5 cm thick and measures around 12.5 cm x 7.35 cm.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 3
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Nov 2023
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Mammut americanum
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO50398
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Theria, Proboscidea, Elephantiformes, Mammutidae