The word Mastodon means “nipple-teeth”. Teeth are one of the main differences between it and a Mammoth. Their cone or nipple shaped teeth are much different than the flat grinding surface of a Mammoth tooth. The is a very ancient prehistoric elephant and a distant relative of the
Woolly Mammoth.
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They were browsers that ate leaves, twigs, and smaller plant vegetation. Their fossils are very common in Florida, more so than Mammoths. They were a heavier, stouter built elephant with a low sloping head and neck. They lived in warmer lowland environments and Ice Age spruce forests. |
Their tusks were very straight, some reaching 15ft (5M) in length and not to be confused with the curved mammoth tusks.
They could reach 9 ft (2.75M) in height at the shoulder with a length of about 15 ft and weighing in somewhere between 8 and 12,000 lbs.
There is some evidence that they may have had seasonal migration routes in search of food.
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