American mastodont

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American mastodont - mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon

genus Mammut, genus Mastodon, Mammut - extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons

mastodon, mastodont - extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

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Saunders, "Environmental Insularity and the Extinction of the American Mastodont, in Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution, ed.

Quantitative analysis of megafaunal extinctions and the tenacity of pleistocene overkill: archeology and the world historian

Discovery of the jaw of an American mastodont (Mammut americanum) and an unusual sedimentary profile in a cornfield in Warren County, Indiana, prompted a multidisciplinary study of the palaeoenvironment of the site.

Palaeoecological interpretation of pollen, macrofossils, polygonal fissures, and taphonomy of the Shafer Mastodont Locality, Warren County, Indiana

Environmental insularity and the extinction of the American mastodont. In Quaternary Extinctions--A Prehistoric Revolution, edited by P.

Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the lower Peninsula of Michigan

The giant beaver is thought to have co-existed alongside the American mastodont, Mammut americanum (Moore 1890; Powell 1948; Graham et al.

Palaeoecology of a Northeast Indiana Wetland harboring remains of the pleistocene giant beaver (Castoroides ohioenis)