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Definition of Genus mastodon

1. Noun. Extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mastodon

Literary usage of Genus mastodon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1842)
"genus mastodon. Cuvier. Many characters in common with the Elephant, which it equalled or surpassed in size. Molars with sharp, elevated, conical teeth, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1885)
"Various attempts have been made to define as genera groups of species which are included within the limits of the genus Mastodon of authors. ..."

3. Records of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1879)
"genus mastodon. Of the genus Mastodon, Mr. Theobald's last collection contains a great number of specimens of the jaws and teeth, some of which are of great ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1844)
"genus mastodon. Remains of any species of this extinct genus are extremely rare in Great Britain, and have been hitherto only found in those deposits ..."

5. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1879)
"Cuvier, tho founder of the genus Mastodon, in his work, ... our greatest authorities on fossil proboscidea, divided the genus Mastodon into two subgenera, ..."

6. The Natural, Statistical, and Civil History of the State of New-York by James Macauley (1829)
"These were all species of the genus mastodon. ... The celebrated naturalist, N. Cuvier, calls it the genus mastodon, that is the American elephant. ..."

7. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... these new pliocene and post-tertiary deposits of England, which are so rich in remains of the Mammoth, " In other parta of the world the genus Mastodon, ..."

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