Mammuthus

...The Mammutidae (Mammut or American Mastodon , Zygolophodon ), which was widely distributed from the Miocene to the Pleistocene, is often considered to be in the same family as the previous family because it resembles them, but the papillae on their molars form a horizontal row. The Elephantidae ( Stegodon , Mammuthus , modern elephants), which appeared in the Miocene, lacked lower tusks, had high molar crowns, and had many horizontal ridges on the biting surface, making them suitable for eating grass and other hard plants. The Barytheridae (Barytherium), which lived in the Eocene to Oligocene of Africa, had large lower incisors and molars similar to Meritherium, but the fossils are poor and the details are unknown. ...

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…中新世～更新世に広く分布したマンムト科(マンムトまたはアメリカマストドンMammut，ジゴロフォドンZygolophodon)は前科に似てしばしば同科とされるが臼歯の乳頭状突起が横列を形成する。中新世に現れたゾウ科(ステゴドンStegodon，マンモスMammuthus，現生のゾウ)は下のきばを欠き，臼歯の歯冠部が高く，咬面に多数の横畝があり，草その他の硬い植物を食べるのに適する。　アフリカの始新世～漸新世のバリテリウム科(バリテリウムBarytherium)は下の切歯が大きく，臼歯がメリテリウムに似るが，化石が貧弱で詳しいことがわからない。…

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