†family Mammutidae Hay 1922 (mastodon)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae

Parent taxon: Elephantimorpha according to W. von Koenigswald et al. 2023

See also Abraczinskas 1993, Carroll 1988, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Maglio 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Miller 1987, Pickford 2003, Sanders et al. 2010, Sanders and Miller 2002, Shoshani et al. 1989, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005, Shoshani et al. 2006 and Zhang et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Elephantida, Eritreaum, Eritreum, Mammutida

Subtaxa: Eozygodon Eozygodontinae Losodokodon Mammut Mammutinae Sinomammut Zygolophodon

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Bolivia (5 collections), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Yukon), China (1), Mexico (8), Slovakia (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (414: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia)

• Blancan of United States (15: California, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1), India (1), United States (1: Georgia)

• Pliocene of Bulgaria (1), China (4), Egypt (1), France (2), Greece (14), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (4), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (25), United States (1: Texas)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (23: Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee)

• Baodean of China (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1), Kazakhstan (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (10), Egypt (1), France (9), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Greece (11), India (4), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (2), Libya (1), Macedonia (1), Moldova (8), Namibia (2), Pakistan (4), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovakia (4), Spain (5), Syria (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Uganda (1), Ukraine (10), United States (53: California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia)

• Neogene of Argentina (1), Indonesia (1), Myanmar (1), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1)

• Oligocene of Angola (1), Kenya (2), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 723 collections including 743 occurrences

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