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Seems like a taxonomy error here: The present link from Mammutidae in the taxonomy box, goes to Mammoths, which was a genus within the family elephantidae, as far as I understand.

From my own website:"The genus mammoths, in latin Mammuthus, was a group of species, belonging to the family of elephants, entirely separated in taxonomy from the Mastodons and the genus family Mammutidae, although they sometimes shared the same envoronment. (For scientific reasons, the mastodons was renamed to family Mammutidae, which became a source for future confusion and misunderstandings)."

I will not change this however, until someone else gives me confirmation or debate, since I may be wrong.

Dan Koehl 13:54, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) http://www.elephant.se

It looks like that's the generally accepted taxonomy (note, though, that they aren't entirely separated from the elephants because they are all Probscidea), and I've changed the page accordingly. Also, it looks like the claim that mastodont is scientifically preferred isn't true, especially since the word derives from the old genus name Mastodon. As such, this page should probably be moved to mastodon, which is the more common name. Josh 15:00, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Image debates 1.1 Image:Miomastodon.jpg 1.2 Image:MastodonSkeleton.jpg 1.3 Image:mastodon.jpg 1.4 Habitat

[edit] Image debates

[edit] Image:Miomastodon.jpg

I don't know if this should go on this page, or its own page. Is it the same thing? Or different? Toothsom 21:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Is it a Platybelodon? looks like it Enlil Ninlil 09:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe it is a Platybelodon. The lower jaw does not look the same. SLATE 04:44, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks like a Platybelodon to me. Jaw is partialy obscurred by the label though - Jack (talk) 01:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:MastodonSkeleton.jpg

I'm pretty sure the picture of the skeleton in a museum is of a mammoth, not a mastodon, judging by those beautifully curved (but unmastodon-like) tusks.Erimus 17:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd have to agree with Erimus - I'm removing the image from this page until it can be verified as being a mastadon. --SLATE

[edit] Image:mastodon.jpg

Neither does this seem to be a mastodon - Jack (talk) 01:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Habitat

Hi, in the Habitat section, I changed "Northeast" to point to Northeastern United States instead of Northeast. I hope that didn't introduce any errors. --Kjoonlee 14:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)