Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Alternative combinations: Mastodon borsoni, Zygolophodon borsoni
Belongs to Mammut according to F. Lacombat et al. 2008
See also Boev 2000, Cope 1889, Madden 1980 and Osborn 1922
Sister taxa: Mammut americanum, Mammut cosoensis, Mammut floridanum, Mammut furlongi, Mammut matthewi, Mammut obliquelophus, Mammut pacificus, Mammut praetypicum, Mastodon lydekkeri, Mastodon raki, Mastodon waringi, Mammut mirificum, Mastodon pyrenaicus, Mastodon spenceri, Mastodon maderianus, Mastodon argentinus, Mastodon (Bunolophodon), Mastodon rectus, Mastodon (Tetralophodon), Mastodon tarijensis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Villafranchian of Hungary (1 collection), Slovakia (3)
• MN 16 of France (2), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Greece (14), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (4), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (15)
• Turolian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2)
Total: 63 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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