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steppe mammoth
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Steppe mammoth
The
steppe mammoth
(
Mammuthus trogontherii
or
Mammuthus armeniacus
) is an extinct species of
Elephantidae
that ranged over most of northern
Eurasia
during the Middle
Pleistocene
, 600,000-370,000 years ago. It probably evolved in
Siberia
during the early Pleistocene from
Mammuthus meridionalis
. It was the first stage in the evolution of the
steppe
and
tundra
elephants
and an ancestor of the
woolly mammoth
of later
glacial periods
.
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