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 obliquelophus, Mammut pacificus, Mammut praetypicum, Mastodon raki, Mastodon rectus, Mastodon tarijensis, Mastodon pyrenaicus, Mastodon argentinus, Mastodon (Bunolophodon), Mastodon maderianus, Mammut mirificum, Mastodon spenceri, Mastodon lydekkeri, Mastodon (Tetralophodon), Mastodon waringi
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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.