Noun:

मस्तोडान, हाथी जैसा एक जानवर जो अब नहीं मिलता,

mastodons's Usage Examples:

Mastodons have fewer ridges on their molar teeth than elephants; the ridges are also less elevated, wider apart, with a thicker enamel covering, and scarcely any cement filling the space between them.

The mode of succession of the teeth in the mastodons exhibits so many stages of the process by which the dentition of elephants has been derived from that of more ordinary mammals.

Ok so maybe mastodon isn't readily available now but legend has it that when mastodons were discovered frozen into glaciers the Romans had the meat brought to Rome for their feasts.

In elephants the number of ridges on the intermediate molars always exceeds five, but in mastodons it is nearly always three or four, and the tooth in front has usually one fewer and that behind one more, so that the ridgeformula (i.e.

In elephants there are only two, the last milk-molar and the first true molar (or the third and fourth of the whole series), which are alike in the number of ridges; whereas in mastodons there are three such teeth, the last milk-molar and the first and second molars (or the third, fourth and fifth of the whole series).

These long-chinned mastodons are now regarded as forming a genus by themselves (Tetrabelodon), well-known examples of this group being Tetrabelodon angustidens from the Miocene and T.

And it equates to the hunter-gatherer who got sustenance by hunting mastodons and gathering berries.

Proboscidea (Elephants and Mastodons).

(See Proboscidea.) The upper tusks of the early mastodons differ from those of elephants in retaining longitudinal bands of enamel.

Mastodons are found in almost all parts of the world.

Synonyms:

genus Mammut, Mammut americanum, proboscidian, genus Mastodon, mastodont, American mastodon, Mammut, proboscidean, American mastodont,