Mastodon Tusk, Mammut americanium Iguanodon in contrast to living elephants

in contrast to living elephants that are mostly grazing animals

but lacks important

It lived during the late Jurassic period

Larvae do not exist as fossils before the Mesozoic

The oldest fossils date back to around 7 million years ago

Mastodon Tusk, Mammut americanium Iguanodon in contrast to living elephantsMastodons are any species of extinct proboscideans in the genus Mammut, distantly related to elephants that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. Mastodons lived in herds and were predominantly forest dwelling animals that fed on a mixed diet of browsing and grazing with a seasonal preference for browsing, in contrast to living