Mammuthus subplanifrons
| Mammuthus subplanifrons Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | Elephantidae |
| Genus: | †Mammuthus |
| Species: | †M. subplanifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mammuthus subplanifrons (Osborn, 1928)
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Mammuthus subplanifrons is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, known from around 6.2-3.75 million years ago during the late Miocene-early Pliocene in what is today South Africa and countries of East Africa, especially Ethiopia, as well as possibly central Africa. They already presented some of the unique characteristics of mammoths, like the spirally, twisting tusks.