The holocene epoch began 11700 years ago and continues through the present. The largest known species reached heights in the region of 4 m 131 ft at the shoulder and weights of up to 8 tonnes 88 short tons while exceptionally large males may have exceeded 12 tonnes 132 short tons. Size mammoths were heavier weighing between 54 to 13 tons with an adult height between 25 to four meters at the shoulder. Trogontherii was perhaps the largest one in the family growing up to 13 to 15 feet tall. Mammoth genus mammuthus any member of an extinct group of elephants found as fossils in pleistocene deposits over every continent except australia and south america and in early holocene deposits of north america. The pleistocene epoch began 26 million years ago and ended 11700 years ago.
The mammoth 12 tons of weight 4 meters 13 ft of height at shoulders and 5 meters 16 ft long tusks that could have scared off many predators but were used mostly for unearthing plants from the frozen ground. Its cousin the steppe mammoth m. Meridionalis is one of the largest proboscideans to have ever lived along with other larger species of mammoth and the earlier deinotherium. A male woolly mammoths shoulder height was 9 to 11 feet tall and weighed around 6 tons. With a shoulder height of about 4 m 131 ft and an estimated weight of 10 tonnes 11 short tons m. The ears of a woolly mammoth were shorter than the modern elephants ears.
Like their modern relatives mammoths were quite large. Mastodons weighed between 5 to 8 tons and grew up to about 23 to 28 meters at the shoulder.
Gallery of Mammoth Height And Weight
