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O '''mastodonte'''<ref>{{DRAG|mastodonte}}</ref> ([[Greek language|Greek]]: μαστός "breast" and ὀδούς, "tooth") are any species of extinct [[mammutidae|mammutid]] [[proboscidea]]ns in the genus '''''Mammut''''', distantly related to [[elephant]]s, that inhabited [[North America|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.<ref name = "Fiedal">{{Cite book
| first = Stuart | last = Fiedal | editor-last = Haynes | editor-first = Gary
| contribution = Sudden Deaths: The Chronology of Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction
| contribution-url = http://www.springerlink.com/content/l225628681672725/?p=5af1eb7387d443a2b514b284c646efa7&pi=1
| title = American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
| year = 2009 | pages = 21–37 | place = | publisher = [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]
| url = http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-4020-8792-9
| doi = 10.1007/978-1-4020-8793-6_2 | isbn = 978-1-4020-8792-9
| id =}}</ref> Mastodons lived in herds and were predominantly forest dwelling animals that fed on a mixed diet obtained by [[Browsing (herbivory)|browsing]] and [[grazing]] with a seasonal preference for browsing, similar to living elephants.
''M. americanum'', the American mastodon, is the youngest and best-known species of the genus. They disappeared from North America as part of a [[Quaternary extinction event|mass extinction]] of most of the [[Pleistocene megafauna]], widely presumed to have been related to [[overexploitation]] by [[Clovis culture|Clovis hunters]], and possibly also to climate change.
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