North American Mammoths An Annotated Bibliography 1940-1990: Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc. Scientific Papers, Vol. 2

North American Mammoths An Annotated Bibliography 1940-1990
Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc. Scientific Papers, Vol. 2
Authors: Larry D. Agenbroad & Bax R. Barton
ISBN-13: 9780962475016
ISBN-10: 0962475017
Publisher: Mammoth Site of Hot Springs South Dec 1991
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8.5 x 11 inches, 118 pages

A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths are more closely related to living Asian elephants than African elephants.

The oldest mammoth representative, Mammuthus subplanifrons, appeared around five million years ago during the early Pliocene in what is now southern and Eastern Africa. Later in the Pliocene, by about three million years ago, mammoths dispersed into Eurasia, eventually covering most of Eurasia before migrating into North America around 1.5–1.3 million years ago, becoming ancestral to the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi). The last species to emerge, the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius), developed about 400,000 years ago in East Asia, with some surviving on Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, as well as possibly the Taymyr Peninsula on mainland Siberia, until as recently as roughly 3,700 to 4,000 years ago, still extant during the existence of the earliest civilisations in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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