Mastodon - Wikipedia
A mastodon (mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for 'mammoth'), which was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family Elephantidae).
Fossil of the month: Mastodon teeth and jaw fragment
2023年2月16日 · Side and top views of mastodon molars from this month’s fossil. Mastodons have teeth composed of pairs of conical structures, which is very different than modern elephants, or their ice age cousins, the mammoths. The shape of their teeth intrigued some of the early scientists who studied them.
13,600-Year-Old Mastodon Skull Uncovered in Iowa | Smithsonian
2024年8月19日 · Archaeologists have unearthed the well-preserved skull of a 13,600-year-old mastodon in south-central Iowa. The creature may have crossed paths with Indigenous people, who began arriving in the...
'Monstrous' mastodon molar - Natural History Museum
This fossilised mastodon tooth from Norfolk once belonged to William Smith, who in 1815 produced the first ever geological map of Britain. In the same year as this tremendous achievement, financial problems led Smith to sell his precious fossil collection to …
'Once in a Lifetime' Mastodon Fossil Tooth Found on South ...
2024年5月20日 · A spokesperson from the Natural History Museum in London looked at the images and confirmed the significance of Finley's find, positively identifying it as a molar tooth of an American...
Mastodon or Mammoth? - U.S. National Park Service
2018年6月7日 · Mastodons were wood browsers and their molars have pointed cones specially adapted for eating woody browse. Mammoths were grazers, their molars have flat surfaces for eating grass.
How a Mastodon’s Teeth Found in Michigan May Tell Us How It ...
2016年11月8日 · Mastodons are ice age relatives of the elephant that once roamed across much of North America and went extinct 10,000 years ago. Like mammoths, they were herbivores, but unlike their grazing...
Social media leads to discovery of 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth
2023年6月7日 · A mastodon tooth washed up on a California beach and then went missing. A local museum tried to track it down.
The American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) - U.S. National ...
2021年10月6日 · Quick Facts! Common name: American mastodon. Scientific name: Mammut americanum. Found at Hagerman: tusks and teeth. Present: mid-Pliocene to end-Pleistocene (10,500 years ago) Range: fossils have been found across North and Central America, from Alaska to Mexico.
Tooth, Mastodon : NF 11 - fwhistorycenter.org
Mastodon Molor. As the continental glaciers that shaped the early North America land mass began to dramatically re-cede and dense pine and fir forests dominated the region, an early culture developed around hunting mastodons that roamed the forests.