prehistoric mammals
Ice age creatures
Prehistoric mammals are mammal species that existed before recorded human history, from the earliest shrew-like creatures of the Mesozoic Era through the iconic megafauna of the Ice Age—woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths.
The term typically evokes these large Pleistocene animals rather than the small mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs: The museum's prehistoric mammal exhibit featured a complete mastodon skeleton.
- monotremesEgg-producing mammal order
- mammothExtinct elephant with curved tusks
- marsupialsPouch-bearing mammals
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
- glyptodonExtinct armored ice-age mammal
saber-toothed cat · Paleocene · ungulates · herbivores · cetaceans · carnivores · omnivores · scavengers · browsers · grazers · giant sloth · La Brea · tar pits · Triassic · dire wolf · cave bear · woolly rhinoceros · fossils
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- prehistoric lifedinosaur, dinosaurs, triceratops, Velociraptor, velociraptor
prehistoric mammalsdinosaurs
Extinct prehistoric reptiles
prehistoric reptiles · ancient reptiles · prehistoric birds · pterosaurs · marine reptiles
prehistoric mammalsliving relatives
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