Mammuthus meridionalis Temporal range: Early Pleistocene
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Mounted skeleton of the Durfort mammoth , National Museum of Natural History, France (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | Elephantidae |
Genus: | †Mammuthus |
Species: | †M. meridionalis
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Binomial name | |
†Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825)
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Mammuthus meridionalis, sometimes called the southern mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth native to Eurasia, including Europe, during the Early Pleistocene, living from around 2.5 million years ago to 800,000 years ago.