Mammoth construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt. The earliest known proboscideans, the clade that contains the elephants, existed about 55 million years ago around the Tethys Sea area. The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. The family Elephantidae is known to have existed six million years ago in Africa, and includes the living elephants and the mammoths. Among many now extinct clades, the mastodon is only a distant relative of the mammoths, and part of the separate Mammutidae family, which diverged 25 million years before the mammoths evolved. The following cladogram shows the placement
Remission (Mastodon album) has sold 49,000 units in United States. "Crusher Destroyer" was featured in the 2003 video game "Tony Hawk's Underground". In 2002, "March of the Fire Ants" was included on a 7" split album with High on Fire's "Hung, Drawn and Quartered." After the "Remission" re-release, it was featured on the "Contaminated 5.0", "MTV2 Headbangers Ball", and "Take Action!, Vol. 4" compilations. "Where Strides the Behemoth" was included on "Contaminated 6.0" and "From the Shadows - Metal for the Modern Era". Remission (Mastodon album) Remission is the debut album by American heavy metal band Mastodon. It was released on May 28,