Mammut (Noun)
Meaning
Extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Mammut americanum is the type species of the family Mammutidae, and it's known from well-preserved fossil remains.
- The genus Mammut is distinct from the genus Mammuthus, which belongs to the family Elephantidae.
- Mammut borsoni was a prehistoric species of proboscidean that lived during the Pliocene epoch in Eurasia.
- Although Mammut americanum and the woolly mammoth were contemporaries, they were quite different in appearance.
- Mammut matthewi, discovered in North America, was one of the earliest fossil mastodons described.