Mammutidae

Mammutidae Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Holocene,[1] 28.4–0.011 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Mounted Mammut skeleton, Museum of the Earth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Clade:	Elephantimorpha
Clade:	†Mammutida
Superfamily:	†Mammutoidea Hay, 1922[2]
Family:	†Mammutidae Hay, 1922
Genera[5]
†Eozygodon Tassy and Pickford, 1983 †Losodokodon Rasmussen & Gutiérrez, 2009 †Mammut Blumenbach, 1799 †Miomastodon? Osborn, 1922[3] †Sinomammut Mothé et al., 2016[4] †Zygolophodon Vacek, 1877
Synonyms
Mastodontidae Gray, 1821

Mammutidae is an extinct family of proboscideans belonging to Elephantimorpha. It is best known for the mastodons (genus Mammut), which inhabited North America from the Late Miocene until their extinction at beginning of the Holocene, around 11,000 years ago. The earliest fossils of the group are known from the Late Oligocene of Africa, around 24 million years ago, and fossils of the group have also been found across Eurasia. The name "mastodon" derives from Greek, μαστός "nipple" and ὀδούς "tooth", referring to their characteristic teeth.