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North American Mammoths An Annotated Bibliography 1940-1990Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc. Scientific Papers, Vol. 2Authors: Larry D. Agenbroad & Bax R. BartonISBN-13: 9780962475016ISBN-10: 0962475017Publisher: Mammoth Site of Hot Springs South Dec 1991Paperback8.5 x 11 inches, 118 pagesA 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… Read More
