Hi Sterling - As big as a dog, from the fossils that shown in the standard reference "Mammoths" Lister and Bahn, pg 35.
Height about 3-4 feet. Similar in size to dwarf elephant/mammoth from Crete: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism (Also check out "Ice Age Mammals of North America", Ian Lange and our friend Dorothy Norton, for species, diets, and ranges.) But I digress. The important part of this is their different food requirements: mammoth and mastodon about 300-350 kilos per day, dwarf forms an order of magnitude less. For the intercontinental, instantaneous, simultaneous extintinctions of megafauna, see Mammoths, pages 124-125. EP --- On Sat, 6/16/12, Sterling K. Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Sterling K. Webb <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth? > To: "E.P. Grondine" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Date: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 1:23 PM > EP, List, > > <Quote> > It was assumed that Wrangell Island mammoths ranged > from 180-230 cm in shoulder height and were for a time > considered "dwarf mammoths". However this classification > has been re-evaluated and since the Second International > Mammoth Conference in 1999, these mammoths are no > longer considered to be true "dwarf mammoths" > <Unquote> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_elephant > > Eight fee high at the shoulder is a little high for a > "dwarf" > or for a large dog. I don't want to meet a Weimaraner > that's eight feet high, ya know? > > So, instead of being the World's Tallest Midget, they've > decided it's the World's Smallest Giant. The California > Channel Island mammoths were 4-5 feet at the shoulder > and the Mediterranean Dwarf mammoths even smaller. > > > > Sterling K. Webb > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- From: "E.P. Grondine" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:38 AM > Subject: [meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth? > > > > Hi Paul - > > > > The answer is the same thing that killed off many > megafuana intercontinentally, instantaneously, and > simlutaneously: global climate collapse, i.l., "nucelar > winter". > > > > Now they are two causes of global dust loading, one of > which is volcanic eruption, the other impact. Since we have > no evidence of volcanic eruption, we are left with impact. > > > > PS- Sterling, Wrangle Island mammoth were already the > size of large dogs, so small as to constitute a different > species, using the old definition based on ability to > interbreed. > > > > EP > > ______________________________________________ > > > > Visit the Archives at > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
