Mastodon

the American mastodon or mammut americanum is an extinct species of elephant from the pleistocene epoch 5.3 mya to 11,000 years ago.the mastodon has been found all over North America. Mastodons were hunted to extinction by clovis humans for food and clothing. Unlike mammoths mastodon's trunks bend upward. Mastodons eat almost everything in their path being such large herbivores no predators would willingly attack a mastodon adult. Mastodon derives from the Greek word "nipple tooth.