Mammuthus subplanifrons
Extinct species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mammuthus subplanifrons is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, known from around 6.2-3.75 million years ago during the late Miocene-early Pliocene in what is today South Africa and countries of East Africa, especially Ethiopia. They already presented some of the unique characteristics of mammoths like the spirally, twisting tusks.[1]
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Mammuthus subplanifrons | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | Elephantidae |
Genus: | †Mammuthus |
Species: | †M. subplanifrons |
Binomial name | |
†Mammuthus subplanifrons (Osborn, 1928) | |
Synonyms | |
Loxodonta adaurora (Maglio, 1970) |
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