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Mastodons or Mastodonts (meaning "nipple-teeth"[citation needed]) are members of the extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth which belongs to the family Elephantidae. Mastodons were browsers and mammoths were grazers. Mastodon is a Grammy-nominated[1] band from Atlanta, Georgia. ...
In biology a Mastodon is a large extinct mammal. ...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
Subclasses & Infraclasses Subclass †Allotheria* Subclass Prototheria Subclass Theria Infraclass †Trituberculata Infraclass Metatheria Infraclass Eutheria Mammals (class Mammalia) are warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of sweat glands, including those that produce milk, and by the presence of: hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex...
Groups Jozaria (extinct) Anthracobunidae (extinct) Moeritheriidae (extinct) Euproboscidea Numidotheriidae (extinct) Barytheriidae (extinct) Deinotheriidae (extinct) Elephantiformes Phiomiidae (extinct) Palaeomastodontidae (extinct) Hemimastodontidae (extinct) Euelephantoidea Choerolophodontidae (extinct) Amebelodontidae (extinct) Gnathabelodontidae (extinct) Gomphotheriidae (extinct) Elephantidae Mammutidae (extinct) Proboscidea is an order containing only one family of living animals, Elephantidae, the elephants, with three species...
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Groups Jozaria (extinct) Anthracobunidae (extinct) Moeritheriidae (extinct) Euproboscidea Numidotheriidae (extinct) Barytheriidae (extinct) Deinotheriidae (extinct) Elephantiformes Phiomiidae (extinct) Palaeomastodontidae (extinct) Hemimastodontidae (extinct) Euelephantoidea Choerolophodontidae (extinct) Amebelodontidae (extinct) Gnathabelodontidae (extinct) Gomphotheriidae (extinct) Elephantidae Mammutidae (extinct) Proboscidea is an order containing only one family of living animals, Elephantidae, the elephants, with three species...
Binomial name Blumenbach, 1799 For the rock band, see Wooly Mammoth (band). ...
Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Proboscidea is an order including only one extant family, Elephantidae or the elephants, with three species: the Savannah Elephant and Forest Elephant (which were collectively known as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (formerly known as the Indian...
A deer and two fawns feeding on some foliage A herbivore is often defined as any organism that eats only plants[1]. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, about 1% of flowering plants and some protists can be considered herbivores. ...
Grazing To feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton. ...
Habitat
Mastodons are thought to have first appeared almost four million years ago. They were native to both Eurasia and North America, but died out in Eurasia approximately three million years ago. They disappeared from North America about 10,000 years ago,[1] at the same time as most other Pleistocene megafauna. It has been suggested that New World Pleistocene extinctions be merged into this article or section. ...
Though their habitat spanned a large territory, mastodons were most common in the Ice age spruce forests of the eastern United States, as well as in warmer lowland environments.[2] Their remains have been found as far as 300 kilometers offshore in the northeastern United States, in areas that were dry land during the low sea level stand of the last ice age.[3] Mastodon fossils have been found in South America, on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, USA,[4] in Kentucky (particularly noteworthy are early finds in what is now Big Bone Lick State Park), in Stewiack, Nova Scotia, Canada, in Richland County, Wisconsin, and north of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. A glaciation (a created composite term meaning Glacial Period, referring to the Period or Era of, as well as the process of High Glacial Activity), often called an ice age, is a geological phenomenon in which massive ice sheets form in the Arctic and Antarctic and advance toward the equator. ...
Species About 35; see text. ...
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Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area Ranked 37th - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 1. ...
Big Bone Lick State Park is located in Boone County, Kentucky. ...
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Description While mastodons were furry like woolly mammoths, and similar in height at roughly three meters at the shoulder, the resemblance was superficial. They differed from mammoths primarily in the blunt, conical shape of their teeth [5], which were more suited to chewing leaves than the high-crowned teeth mammoths used for grazing; the name mastodon (or mastodont) means mastoid teeth (Greek μαστός and οδούς "nipple tooth"), and is also an obsolete name for their genus. Their skulls were larger and flatter than those of mammoths, while their skeleton was stockier and more robust.[6] Mastodons also seem to have lacked the undercoat characteristic of mammoths.[6] Binomial name Blumenbach, 1799 For the rock band, see Wooly Mammoth (band). ...
Mastoid can mean: Of, relating to or in the region of the mastoid process. ...
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The tusks of the mastodon sometimes exceeded five meters in length, and were nearly horizontal, in contrast with the more curved mammoth tusks.[6] Young males had vestigial lower tusks that were lost in adulthood.[6] However it has been proven that female mastodons had lower pairs of tusks. The tusks were probably used to break branches and twigs although some evidence suggests males may have used them in mating challenges; one tusk is often shorter than the other, suggesting that, like humans, mastodons may have had laterality.[6] Examination of fossilized tusks revealed a series of regularly spaced shallow pits on the underside of the tusks. Microscopic examination showed damage to the dentin under the pits. It is theorized that the damage was caused when the males were fighting over mating rights. The curved shape of the tusks would have forced them downward with each blow, causing damage to the newly forming ivory at the base of the tusk. The regularity of the damage in the growth patterns of the tusks indicates that this was an annual occurrence, probably occurring during the spring and early summer.[7] For other uses, see Tusk (disambiguation). ...
A vestigial organ is an organ whose original function has been lost during evolution. ...
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Parts of a tooth, including dentin Dentin (BE: dentine) is the substance between enamel (substance in the crown) or cementum (substance in the root) of a tooth and the pulp chamber. ...
Extinction The meat of mastodons was a food source for early humans. Paleontologists are still trying to determine what role, if any, the early human settlers of North America played in the extinction of the mastodon. For other uses, see Extinction (disambiguation). ...
Recent studies by scientists in Ohio and New York concluded that tuberculosis may have been partly responsible for the extinction of the Mastodon 10,000 years ago.[8][9] Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...
In September 2007, Mark Holley, an underwater archeologist with the Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve Council who teaches at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Michigan, said that they might have discovered a boulder (3.5 to 4 feet high x 5 feet long) with a prehistoric carving in the Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. The granite rock has markings that resemble a mastodon with a spear in its side. Confirmation that the markings are an ancient petroglyph will require more evidence.[10] Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...
Northwestern Michigan College, also known as NMC to local residents, is a community college in Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. ...
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Grand Traverse Bay is located off Lake Michigan in Northern Michigan. ...
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Museums The following museums and colleges have mastodon fossils on display: Entrance to the Museum of the Earth The Museum of the Earth is a public natural history exhibit facility for one of the nations largest and finest fossil collections. ...
The Museum and Arts Center, a non-profit organization, located in downtown Sequim, Washington, is the home of the Manis Mastodon. ...
The Peale Museum is a museum of paintings and natural history, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It is the oldest museum building in the Western Hemisphere. ...
The Florida Museum of Natural History is located at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida. ...
Mastodon State Historic Site is an archaeological and paleontological site in Imperial, Missouri, containing the Kimmswick Bone Bed. ...
The Illinois State Museum is the official museum of the natural history of the U.S. state of Illinois. ...
Orange County Community College is a SUNY associated two-year college with its main campus in Middletown, New York. ...
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Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Protestant, coeducational, liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles west of Chicago in the United States. ...
The University of Nebraska State Museum, which is popularly known as Elephant Hall, is a natural history museum featuring Nebraska biodiversity, paleontology, and cultural diversity. ...
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A natural history museum in Norman, Oklahoma, operated by the University of Oklahoma. ...
Current excavations Current excavations are going on annually at the Hiscock site in Byron, NY for mastodon and related paleo-Indian artifacts. The site was discovered in 1959 by the Hiscock family while digging a pond with a backhoe; they found a large tusk and stopped digging. The Buffalo Museum of Science has organized the dig since 1983. It has been called one of the richest sites available for mastodon-related artifacts. The site sits on swampland that was covered by Lake Tonowanda, which was a glacier runoff lake formed over 10,000 years ago. It has been confirmed that mastodons would flock there to eat the sodium-rich clay during one of the last great droughts of the paleolithic.
See also Island 35 Mastodon Mastodons roamed North America from the Tertiary period until about 10,000 years ago (Painting by Heinrich Harder ca. ...
References
 The Exhumation of the Mastodon by Peale - ^ "Greek mastodon find 'spectacular'", BBC News, 24 July 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ Björn Kurtén and Elaine Anderson, Pleistocene Mammals of North America, (New York: Columbia UP, 1980), p. 344.
- ^ Kurtén and Anderson, p. 344.
- ^ Kirk and Daugherty, Archaeology in Washington, forthcoming from University of Washington Press, April 2007.
- ^ http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/mastodon_tooth.html
- ^ a b c d e Kurtén and Anderson, p. 345
- ^ Fisher, D (Oct. 18-21, 2006). "Tusk cementum defects record musth battles in American mastodons". Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
- ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060924/sc_space/tuberculosishelpedbringdownmastodons
- ^ http://www.valuemd.com/relaxing-lounge/121719-now-interesting-tb-vs-mastodons.html
- ^ Flesher, John. "Possible mastodon carving found on rock", Associated Press, 2007-09-04. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.
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Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), self-portrait from 1822 Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. ...
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