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
Mastodon discography Mastodon discography The discography of heavy metal band Mastodon consists of seven studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, one video album, six extended plays, twenty-six singles and twenty music videos. The band was formed in 2000 by guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher, bassist and vocalist Troy Sanders, and drummer Brann Dailor, in Atlanta, Georgia. Mastodon released their debut extended play, "Slick Leg" in 2001, before signing with Relapse Records and releasing their second EP "Lifesblood" the same year, followed by the band's first studio album in 2002, "Remission". After a tour promoting the album, Mastodon released their