Mastodon americanus picture is printed on premium photo quality
super "B" paper 17" x 22". Original oil painting by Josef
Moravec. Mastodon americanus is in art collection of Dinosaur
Corporation. This unusual large mammal lived in North America
during the Pleistocene epoch until the end of the ice age. It
roamed the earth for over a million years, but suddenly
disappeared (perhaps because of the climate changes). It was one
of the largest land animals living during the ice age. Mastodon
belonged to the family Mammutidae, that originated in North
Africa, spreading to Eurasia and entering North America 15
million years ago. Its name means "nipple tooth". These
elephant-like animals were affected by environmental changes.
Mastodons living during the middle of the last glaciation were
small, whereas those living later in forests were larger. It was
mostly adapted to conifer forests and marsh. It fed on plants
(conifer twigs, swamp plants, larch, spruce, pine, grass,
mosses, etc.) and used its tusks to break bran