Named By: | Nesti in 1825 |
Time Period: | 2.5-1.5 Ma Pleistocene |
Location: | Eurasia |
Size: | 4 meters high at the shoulder |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Proboscidea | Elephantidae | Mammuthus | |
Also known as: | | Archidiskodon meridionalis | Mammuthus gromovi | Mammuthus meridionalis vestinus | Mammuthus meridionalis voigtstedtensis | |
Mammuthus meridionalis, or the southern mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth endemic to Europe and Central Asia from the Gelasian stage of the Early Pleistocene, living from 2.5-1.5 mya.