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African mammoth
290290African mammoth (Mammuthus subplanifrons Osborn, 1928)
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Dimensions: length - 5,5 m, height - 3,5 m, weight - 8 000 kg
Expansion: during the early Pliocene (endemic Africa)
Mammuthus subplanifrons, or the African mammoth, is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, appearing around 5 million years ago during the 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.
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African mammoth (Mammuthus subplanifrons Osborn, 1928)
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Dimensions: length - 5,5 m, height - 3,5 m, weight - 8 000 kg
Expansion: during the early Pliocene (endemic Africa)
Mammuthus subplanifrons, or the African mammoth, is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, appearing around 5 million years ago during the 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.
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-346x277.jpg "The most recent survival of all known mammoth populations (Wrangel Island)")
