Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Alternative combination: Pliomastodon cosoensis
Full reference: J. R. Schultz. 1937. A Late Cenozoic Vertebrate Fauna From the Coso Mountains, Inyo County, California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 487(3):77-109
Belongs to Mammut according to J. Shoshani and P. Tassy 1996
See also Schultz 1937
Sister taxa: Mammut americanum, Mammut borsoni, Mammut floridanum, Mammut furlongi, Mammut matthewi, Mammut pacificus, Mastodon maderianus, Mastodon lydekkeri, Mastodon argentinus, Mastodon spenceri, Mastodon tarijensis, Mammut mirificum, Mastodon raki, Mastodon waringi, Mastodon (Tetralophodon), Mastodon rectus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Coso Mountains (CIT 284), which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in California
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Coso Mountains (CIT 284)
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