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Mammut americanum — Mammut americanum
Mammut americanum — Jonathan Chen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 4.0

Mammal

Mammut americanum

American mastodon

Mammut americanum, the American mastodon, is the browsing proboscidean of Pleistocene North America whose cusped, cone-topped molars are easy to tell from the flat, plated teeth of mammoths. Mastodon teeth from Florida rivers, Midwest bogs and dredged gravels are common and affordable; tusks and skeletons are valuable. Mastodon ivory falls under the same state ivory rules as mammoth.

PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderProboscidea
FamilyMammutidae
GroupMammal
Rank (PBDB)genus· Paleobiology Database
Author(Blumenbach 1799)· Paleobiology Database
Common name (PBDB)mastodon· Paleobiology Database
Classification (PBDB)Chordata › Mammalia › Proboscidea › Mammutidae· Paleobiology Database
Range (PBDB)27.3–0 Ma· Paleobiology Database
PBDB occurrences617· Paleobiology Database

Photographs

Mammut americanum — Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792), FIGURED (NHMUK PV M 92734)
Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792), FIGURED (NHMUK PV M 92734) — © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal, CC BY 4.0
Mammut americanum — Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792) (NHMUK PV OR 15913)
Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792) (NHMUK PV OR 15913) — © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal, CC BY 4.0
Mammut americanum — Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792), NON-TYPE (NHMUK PV OR 17395)
Mammut americanum (Kerr, 1792), NON-TYPE (NHMUK PV OR 17395) — © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal, CC BY 4.0

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Elsewhere

Cite this article

Stratum Study. "Mammut americanum" (Taxon). Stratum Study pack 2026.09, as of 2026-09-19. https://stratum.black/study/taxa/mammut-americanum. Accessed 2026-09-20.

BibTeX · CSL-JSON

@misc{stratum-mammut-americanum,
  title        = {Mammut americanum},
  author       = {{Stratum Study}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://stratum.black/study/taxa/mammut-americanum}},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {Taxon article, Stratum Study pack 2026.09, as of 2026-09-19; sources: stratum, pbdb, wikidata, commons, nhm. Accessed 2026-09-20.}
}

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