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Pliomastodon
Pliomastodon
Era: CenozoicDiet: HerbivorousPeriod: PlioceneSize: 3.05mWeight: 8000kg
A mastodon (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós) 'breast' and ὀδούς (odoús) 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for 'mammoth'), which was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family Elephantidae)