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Types of Mammoths

Columbian ​Mammoth​
Columbian ​Mammoth​

The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America as far north as the northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with M. subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.

Dwarf ​Elephant​
Dwarf ​Elephant​

An exception is the dwarf Sardinian mammoth, Mammuthus lamarmorai (Major, 1883), the first endemic elephant of the Mediterranean islands recognized as belonging to the mammoth line. A genetic study published in 2006 theorized that the Elephas creticus could be from the mammoth line too.

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Mammuthus ​Africanavus​
Mammuthus ​Africanavus​

The African mammoth, Mammuthus africanavus (literally, "African ancestor mammoth"), is the second oldest of mammoth species, having first appeared around 3 million years ago during the late Pliocene, with a last appearance around 1.65 million years ago in the early Pleistocene.

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Mammuthus ​Creticus​
Mammuthus ​Creticus​

Palaeoloxodon creticus Bate, 1907 Mammuthus creticus, or the Cretan dwarf mammoth, is an extinct species of dwarf mammoth. With a shoulder height of about 1 m and a weight of about 180 kg, it was the smallest mammoth that ever existed.

Mammuthus ​Imperator​
Mammuthus ​Imperator​

The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) ... Humans entered the Americas through Beringia, and evidence documents their interactions with Columbian mammoths. Tools made from Columbian mammoth remains have been discovered in several North American sites. At Tocuila, Mexico, mammoth bones were quarried 13,000 years ago to produce lithic flakes and cores. At the Lange-Ferguson Site in South ...

Mammuthus ​Meridionalis​
Mammuthus ​Meridionalis​

Mammuthus meridionalis vestinus M. m. voigtstedtensis (Dietrich, 1965) Mammuthus meridionalis, or the southern mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth endemic to Europe and Central Asia from the Gelasian stage of the Early Pleistocene, living from 2.5–1.5 mya.

Mammuthus ​Subplanifrons​
Mammuthus ​Subplanifrons​

Mammuthus subplanifrons, or the South African mammoth, is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, appearing around 5 million years ago during the early Pliocene in what is today South Africa and countries of East Africa, especially Ethiopia.

Palaeoloxodon ​Mnaidriensis​
Palaeoloxodon ​Mnaidriensis​

[image of Columbian mammoth model, courtesy of Natural History Museum, London] Artwork can be found throughout the exhibit. In a striking display of the diversity of these animals, a sculpture of a dwarf mammoth stands beside a bas-relief of an elephant, a mastodon and a Columbian mammoth. Full-sized fleshed-out sculptures of proboscidean heads—species that lived prior to mammoths and mastodons—extend from the wall.

Pygmy ​Mammoth​
Pygmy ​Mammoth​

The pygmy mammoth or Channel Islands mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) is an extinct species of dwarf elephant descended from the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi) of mainland North America.

Steppe ​Mammoth​
Steppe ​Mammoth​

The steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii, sometimes 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.

Woolly ​Mammoth​
Woolly ​Mammoth​

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, and was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.

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