Back ماموث جنوب إفريقي Arabic Mamut sud-africà Catalan Mammuthus subplanifrons Spanish Mammuthus subplanifrons French ממותה דרום אפריקנית HE Mammuthus subplanifrons Italian Mammuthus subplanifrons Polish Mammuthus subplanifrons Russian Mammuthus subplanifrons Ukrainian
| Mammuthus subplanifrons Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene
| |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | Elephantidae |
| Genus: | †Mammuthus |
| Species: | †M. subplanifrons
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Mammuthus subplanifrons (Osborn, 1928)
| |
| Synonyms | |
|
Loxodonta adaurora (Maglio, 1970) | |
Mammuthus subplanifrons is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, known from around 6.2-3.75 million years ago during the late Miocene-early Pliocene in what is today South Africa and countries of East Africa, especially Ethiopia. They already presented some of the unique characteristics of mammoths, like the spirally, twisting tusks.[1]
- ^ Lister, Adrian; Bahn, Paul. (1 October 2007). Mammoths: giants of the ice age. Frances Lincoln LTD. p. 23. ISBN 9780711228016.