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Books about Fossil Elephants

Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age
Mastodon (Prehistoric Beasts)
Compilation report For Collectors Of Mammoths and Mastodons
This book covers subjects such as the Proboscidean order, Proboscidean Teeth, Methods for determining age and much much more.
Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals
Since the extinction of the dinosaurs, hoofed mammals have been the planet's dominant herbivores. Native to all continents except Australia and Antarctica, they include not only even-toed artiodactyls (pigs, hippos, camels, deer, antelopes, giraffes, sheep, goats, and cattle) and odd-toed perissodactyls (horses and rhinos), but also tethytheres (elephants and their aquatic relatives, manatees and seas cows) and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), which descended from hoofed land mammals. Recent paleontological and biological discoveries have deepened our understanding of their evolution and in some cases have made previous theories obsolete. In Horns, Tusks, and Flippers, Donald R. Prothero and Robert M. Schoch present a compelling new evolutionary history of these remarkable creatures, combining the latest scientific evidence with the most current information about their ecology and behavior.