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The mammoths should not be confused with the American mastodon (Mammut americanum), another ancient elephant from North and Central America.
猛犸應(yīng)該不會與生活在北美洲和中美洲的另一種古象——美洲乳齒象相混淆（Mammut americanum）。
It is unique because there are no other known sites in the state, and few in North America, that contain both mammoth and mastodon fossils in one location.
它的獨(dú)特之處在于，該州沒有其他已知的遺址同時包含猛犸象和乳齒象化石，甚至在整個北美也很罕見。
The researchers say they have also done the first nuclear genetic analysis of the American mastodon
研究人員說他們已經(jīng)完成了首個美洲乳齒象的細(xì)胞核遺傳學(xué)分析

Visitors can see the ancient fossil bones of creatures like the imperial mammoth and the American mastodon.

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any extinct elephant-like proboscidean mammal of the genus Mammut (or Mastodon), common in Pliocene times