Mammut americanum

Mammut americanum

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
American mastodonPBDB
Sits inside
MammutPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Mammut
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Mammut
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 377 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 377 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 377 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 371 of 377 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 24 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 325 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

377 occurrences of Mammut americanum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

377 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

12 formations

Rexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WTacubaya — 21.80°N, 102.30°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WMissinabi — 50.80°N, 81.30°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WWando — 32.96°N, 80.16°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WBeaumont — 29.66°N, 94.09°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.63°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Mammut americanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 364 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mammut americanum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mammut americanum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

801 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 373 sites for Mammut americanum, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

109 references

Each of the 377 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 97 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Mammut americanum

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMammut through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kerr 1792)