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.

 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

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Categoria:Proboscidea
Categoria:Mammalia exstincta
Categoria:Species animalium
Categoria:Taxa Kerr
Categoria:Taxa 1792