Mastodon Tusk, Mammut americanium Iguanodon

Mastodon Tusk, Mammut americanium IguanodonMastodons are any species of extinct proboscideans in the genus Mammut, distantly related to elephants that inhabited 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. Mastodons lived in herds and were predominantly forest dwelling animals that fed on a mixed diet of browsing and grazing with a seasonal preference for browsing, in contrast to living

and have since been found over most of North America and as far south as Venezuela

Early Eocene (40 m

3 m) long and 13

but lacks important

1991) is the biggest-known species of Liopleurodon

T-rex was up to 18

Larvae do not exist as fossils before the Mesozoic

The announcement of the discovery of Maiasaura attracted renewed scientific interest to the Two Medicine Formation and many other new kinds of dinosaurs were discovered because of the increased attention

It lived during the late Jurassic period

Volcanic ash fell

in contrast to living elephants that are mostly grazing animals

The oldest fossils date back to around 7 million years ago