Mammuthus
extinct genus of elephants (Elephantidae)
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Summary
Mammuthus is a fossil taxon[1]. Mammuthus ranks in the top 0.19% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41,472 views/month, #18 of 9,701).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: genus[3]
- Parent taxon: Elephantina[4]
- Location of discovery: Alaska[5], Siberia[6], Canada[7], Europe[8]
- Taxon name: Mammuthus[9]
- Commons category: Mammuthus[10]
- Unicode character: 🦣[11]
- Temporal range start: Pliocene[12]
- Temporal range end: Holocene[13]
- Start time: 5000000 BC[14]
- End time: 1800 BC[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mammoths[16]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[17], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23], The American Cyclopædia[24], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[26]
- This taxon is source of: mammoth ivory[27]
- Different from: Mamut[28]
- Height: 4.5 m[29]
- Mass: 6 tonne[30]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mammals[31], WikiProject Palaeontology[32]
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Identifiers
Mammuthus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 201599[33]. Mammuthus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 37348[34]. Mammuthus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 3014669[35]. Mammuthus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4825832[36].
Discovery and Description
Things named for Mammuthus include 9879 Mammuthus[37], an asteroid[38].
Why It Matters
Mammuthus has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Mammuthus is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]
Entities named for Mammuthus include 9879 Mammuthus[37], an asteroid[38].