Mammuthus
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A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,500 years ago in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. They were members of the family Elephantidae which contains, along with mammoths, the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors.
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Woolly mammoth - Mammuthus primigenius
| phylum | Chordata | The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. M. primigenius diverged from the steppe mammoth, M. trogontherii, about 200,000 years ago in eastern Asia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| order | Proboscidea | |
| family | Elephantidae | |
| genus | †Mammuthus | |
| species | M. primigenius | |
| Temporal range | Pleistocene Holocene |
Steppe mammoth
| phylum | Chordata | The steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii or Mammuthus armeniacus) is an extinct species of Elephantidae that ranged over most of northern Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene, 600,000-370,000 years ago. It probably evolved in Siberia during the early Pleistocene from Mammuthus meridionalis. It was the first stage in the evolution of the steppe and tundra elephants and an ancestor of the woolly mammoth of later glacial periods.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| order | Proboscidea | |
| family | Elephantidae | |
| genus | †Mammuthus | |
| species | M. trogontherii | |
| Temporal range | Mid Pleistocene |
