Steppe mammoth

Steppe mammoth Temporal range: Early Pleistocene-Middle Pleistocene[1] 1.7–0.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Possible Late Pleistocene records
Skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	Elephantidae
Genus:	†Mammuthus
Species:	†M. trogontherii
Binomial name
†Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig, 1885) [2]
Synonyms
Mammuthus armeniacus Falconer, 1857 Elephas trogontherii Pohlig, 1885 Euelephas protomammonteus Matsumoto, 1924 Mammuthus protomammonteus (Matsumoto, 1924) Mammuthus sungari Zhou, 1959 Mammuthus trogontherii chosaricus Dubrovo, 1966

Mammuthus trogontherii, sometimes called the steppe mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth that ranged over most of northern Eurasia during the Early and Middle Pleistocene, approximately 1.7 million to 200,000 years ago. The evolution of the steppe mammoth marked the initial adaptation of the mammoth lineage towards cold environments, with the species probably being covered in a layer of fur. One of the largest mammoth species, it evolved in East Asia during the Early Pleistocene, around 1.8 million years ago, before migrating into North America around 1.3 million years ago, and into Europe during the Early/Middle Pleistocene transition, around 1 to 0.7 million years ago (replacing the earlier mammoth species Mammuthus meridionalis). It was the ancestor of the woolly mammoth and Columbian mammoth of the later Pleistocene (as well as the dwarf Sardinian mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorai).