mastodon

     

Mastoons or Mastodonts (from Greek μαστός and οδούς, meaning "nipple tooth") 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, while mammoths were grazers.

Trivia about mastodon

  • Similar to its larger relative the mammoth, this extinct mammal had shaggy hair & 2 sets of tusks
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) The University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum has a skeleton of this animal that humans may have driven extinct; the distinctive teeth that provided its name were once thought to belong to a carnivore
  • The name of this extinct elephant-like creature comes from Greek meaning "breast tooth"
  • It was similar to the mammoth but it had different teeth
  • Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative
  • If Horton climbed his family tree, he'd go from elephant to stegodon to stegolophodon to this

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