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Mammut americanum (American mastodon)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae

Taxonomy
Elephas americanus was named by Kerr (1792) [also said to be 1791 sometimes incorrectly attributed to Blumenbach 1799].

It was recombined as Mastodon americanus by Cuvier (1817), Leidy (1868), Leidy (1873), Allen (1895) and Osborn (1942); it was recombined as Mammut americanum by Blumenbach (1799), Hay (1902), Simpson (1945), Wilson (1967), Lundelius (1972), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Madden (1980), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Miller (1987), Abraczinskas (1993), Kelly (1994), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Hulbert and Pratt (1998), Lambert and Shoshani (1998), Christiansen (2007) and Eshelman et al. (2018).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1792Elephas americanus Kerr
1797Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach
1799Mammut americanum Blumenbach
1817Mastodon americanus Cuvier
1817Mastodon giganteum Cuvier
1825Tapirus mastodontoides Harlan
1830Tetracaulodon mastodontoideum Godman
1835Tapirus mastodontoides Harlan
1842Elephas americanus De Kay
1850Mastodon giganteus Mantell p. 167
1852Mastodon giganteus Warren p. 9
1857Mastodon ohioticum Leidy p. 89
1858Elephas imperator Leidy
1858Elephas texianus Owen
1860Elephas americanus Leidy p. 108
1860Mastodon ohioticus Leidy p. 108
1868Mastodon americanus Leidy p. 175
1873Mastodon americanus Leidy p. 229
1873Elephas americanus Leidy p. 238
1875Elephas americanus Cope p. 51
1875Trilophodon ohioticus Cope p. 51
1877Elephas americanus Leidy p. 212
1895Mastodon americanus Allen p. 187
1902Mammut americanum Hay p. 708
1914Mammut progenium Hay
1942Mastodon americanus Osborn
1942Mastodon progenius Osborn
1944Pliomastodon adamsi Hibbard
1945Mammut americanum Simpson
1949Mammut adamsi Hibbard and Riggs
1966Mammut americanus Slaughter p. 79
1967Mammut americanum Wilson p. 213
1972Mammut americanum Lundelius, Jr.
1980Mammut americanum Kurten and Anderson p. 344
1980Mammut americanum Madden
1981Mammut americanum Thurmond and Jones p. 180
1987Mammut americanum Miller p. 171
1987Pliomastodon adamsi Tedford et al.
1993Mammut americanum Abraczinskas p. 345
1994Mammut americanum Kelly
1996Mammut americanum Shoshani and Tassy
1998Mammut americanum Hulbert, Jr. and Pratt
1998Mammut americanum Lambert and Shoshani
2007Mammut americanum Christiansen p. 425
2018Mammut americanum Eshelman et al. p. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderProboscidea()
suborderElephantiformesTassy 1988
ElephantimorphaTassy and Shoshani 1997
MammutidaTassy and Shoshani 1997
familyMammutidaeHay 1922
genusMammutBlumenbach 1799
speciesamericanum(Kerr 1792)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 [American mastodon]
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Invalid names: Elephas americanus De Kay 1842 [synonym], Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach 1797 [synonym], Mammut progenium Hay 1914 [synonym], Mastodon giganteum Cuvier 1817 [synonym], Pliomastodon adamsi Hibbard 1944 [synonym], Tapirus mastodontoides Harlan 1825 [synonym], Tetracaulodon mastodontoideum Godman 1830 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available