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  • proper noun An extinct genus comprising the mammoths.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Elephantidaemammoths.

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  • noun extinct genus: mammoths

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Examples

  • Were we focus on the "Synapsida" in all its glory, we could potentially have such basal taxa as Ophiacodon right next to Mammuthus or Canis.

    Archive 2009-04-01 ART Evolved 2009

  • Were we focus on the "Synapsida" in all its glory, we could potentially have such basal taxa as Ophiacodon right next to Mammuthus or Canis.

    Life's Time Capsule: The Permian Synapsid Show Zach 2009

  • The latest woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) in Europe and Asia: a review of the current evidence.

    Introduction to Arctic Tundra and Polar Desert Ecosystems 2009

  • Mammuthus fossils were first found in 1961 in a village in the southern county of Tainan.

    Heffalumps Widely Distributed in Taiwan Michael Turton 2007

  • A little known but interesting aspect of Pleistocene megafauna was the species of pygmy mammoth Mammuthus exilis that inhabited the Northern Channel Islands of the California Coast.

    Pygmy Mammoths 2005

  • It is thought that Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) made their way to Santarosae about 20,000 years ago likely swimming (modern elephants are good swimmers!) the 5 miles or so from the mainland.

    Pygmy Mammoths 2005

  • Emblematic of the welter is that Pleistocene elephantid on the northern Channel Islands, oxymoronic in itself: Mammuthus exilis, the dwarf mammoth.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • These fossils represent Mammuthus exilis, a pygmy species derived from Mammuthus columbi, which was one of several mammoths that roamed North America within the last million years.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Mammuthus exilis, descended from mainland mammoths that stood fourteen feet tall at the shoulders, grew only six feet tall on the Channel Islands.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • The offshore presence of Mammuthus exilis had for a century been taken as proof, Johnson wrote, that the northern Channel Islands were once connected to mainland California by a land bridge.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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