Web Directory

» Amebelodon
   The Shovel-tusker: Account of a new discovery.
   http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/vertpaleo/amebelo.html

» Calvin College Mastodon Resource
   Mastodon resource containing a growing number of journal articles and links. Also features photographic inventory and journal of Calvin College's current mastodon excavation in Grand Rapids, MI.
   http://www.calvin.edu/academic/geology/mastodon/calvin_c.htm

» Elephant Evolution
   Article discussing the extant and extinct members of the Proboscidea with a chart showing ancestral proboscideans.
   http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Stories/Evolution/evolution.html

» Gomphotherium
   Information and an llustration of this ancestor of mammoths and elephants, with a photograph of a lower jaw of Gomphotherium angustidens from Austria.
   http://www.elephant.se/gomphotherium.php?open=Extinct%20Proboscidea

» Mammoths
   Provides information on these extinct members of the Proboscidea, three species of which lived on the mainland of the United States at the end of the last Ice Age.
   http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/mammuthus.html

» Mastodon State Historic Site
   Provides information on the mastodon fossils found in Missouri in what is now known as the Kimmswick Bone Bed, one of the most extensive Pleistocene deposits in the USA.
   http://www.mostateparks.com/mastodon.htm

» Mastodons
   The American mastodon, Mammut Americanum, became extinct about 11,000 years ago. This illustrated article shows exhibits at the Illinois State Museum.
   http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/mammut.html

» Moeritherium
   Moeritherium is regarded as the ancestor of the order Proboscidea, which includes all the elephants. Illustration and information.
   http://www.elephant.se/moeritherium.php?open=Extinct%20Proboscidea

» Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae: Eritreum
   Provides an illustration and information on Eritreum melakeghebrekristosi which lived in the late Paleocene.
   http://www.ppne.co.uk/index.php?m=show&id=28574

» Stegodon
   Illustration and information on this ancestor of the elephant which had its origins in the late Miocene.
   http://www.elephant.se/stegodon.php?open=Extinct%20Proboscidea

» The Mammoth Story
   Article by Grant Kedie on elephants and the fossil remains of four extinct species that have been found in British Columbia.
   http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Content_Files/Files/mammoth-1.pdf

» The UnMuseum
   Mammoth and mastodon exhibit.
   http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/mastodon.htm

» Woolly Mammoths: Evidence of Catastrophe?
   Two articles questioning accepted views on whether preserved mammoth remains indicate the occurrence of a great catastrophe and whether mammoths were well adapted for living in cold climates.
   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mammoths.html