Mammut borsoni

"Mammut" borsoni is an extinct species of mammutid proboscidean known from the Late Miocene to the beginning of the Early Pleistocene of Eurasia, spanning from western Europe to Anatolia and possibly China. As a member of Mammutidae it is related to the American mastodon, though its placement in the genus Mammut is disputed. It is the last known mammutid in Eurasia, and considerably larger than the American mastodon, with the shoulder height and body mass of males suggested to exceed 4 metres (13 ft) and 16 tonnes (35,000 lb) respectively, making it amongst the largest of all proboscideans and largest known land mammals. Its tusks, which could reach over 5 metres (16 ft) in length, are the longest known of any animal.

Mammut borsoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MammutPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Mammut
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Mammut
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 8 of 63 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 52 of 63 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10.0–9.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–4.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.246 Mya3.55 Mya12.1 Mya1.3 Mya

63 occurrences of Mammut borsoni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

63 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Balta sands — 47.97°N, 29.30°EBalta sands — 48.90°N, 28.41°EBalta sands — 49.03°N, 28.12°EBalta sands — 48.20°N, 29.70°EOdessa limestone — 46.46°N, 30.73°EGnilyane — 42.80°N, 23.06°E

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The named rock units Mammut borsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mammut borsoni and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mammut borsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Mammut borsoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

17 references

Each of the 63 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 5 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mammut borsoni

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mammut borsoni was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hays 1834)