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Mammutids originated in
Africa during the Late Oligocene, with the
oldest genus Lo****odon
dating to
around 27.5-24
million years ago.
Mammutids belonging...
- of the
molars of
mammutids were conservative,
meaning that they
hardly changed in the
evolutionary history of the family.
Mammutids also
exhibited evidences...
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extinct genus of
mammutid proboscidean that
lived during the
Miocene in Africa, Eurasia, and
North America. As with
other mammutids, the
molars have a...
- deinotheres,
along with the more
advanced elephantimorphs,
including mammutids (mastodons), gomphotheres,
amebelodontids (which
includes the "shovel...
- m**** in life of
around 137
kilograms (302 lb). In
comparison to
earlier mammutids like Zygolophodon, the
lower jaw,
particularly the front-most part, the...
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different from
those of more
primitive proboscideans like
gomphotheres and
mammutids.
Fossils of the
genus are
known from
Africa and
across much of Asia, as...
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different from
those of
other extinct proboscideans like
gomphotheres and
mammutids, with both
groups having a
proal jaw
movement utilizing forward strokes...
- deinotheres,
along with the more
advanced elephantimorphs,
including mammutids (mastodons), gomphotheres,
amebelodontids (which
includes the "shovel...
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contained later mammals like the
megatheriid ground sloth Megatherium and the
mammutid proboscidean Mammut (later
known informally as a "mastodon"),
which were...
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Gomphotheriidae as
opposed to
other mammutids. The
chewing surface had the
zygodont structure typical of
mammutids. Each bar was
divided into two half-strips...
