[meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth?

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:06:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1339887979.76639.YahooMailClassic_at_web160404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Hi Sterling -

As big as a dog, from the fossils that shown in the standard reference
"Mammoths" Lister and Bahn, pg 35.

Height about 3-4 feet.

Similar in size to dwarf elephant/mammoth from Crete:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism

(Also check out "Ice Age Mammals of North America", Ian Lange and our friend Dorothy Norton, for species, diets, and ranges.)

But I digress. The important part of this is their different food requirements: mammoth and mastodon about 300-350 kilos per day, dwarf forms an order of magnitude less.

For the intercontinental, instantaneous, simultaneous extintinctions of megafauna, see Mammoths, pages 124-125.

EP

--- On Sat, 6/16/12, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth?
> To: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 1:23 PM
> EP, List,
>
> <Quote>
> It was assumed that Wrangell Island mammoths ranged
> from 180-230 cm in shoulder height and were for a time
> considered "dwarf mammoths". However this classification
> has been re-evaluated and since the Second International
> Mammoth Conference in 1999, these mammoths are no
> longer considered to be true "dwarf mammoths"
> <Unquote>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_elephant
>
> Eight fee high at the shoulder is a little high for a
> "dwarf"
> or for a large dog. I don't want to meet a Weimaraner
> that's eight feet high, ya know?
>
> So, instead of being the World's Tallest Midget, they've
> decided it's the World's Smallest Giant. The California
> Channel Island mammoths were 4-5 feet at the shoulder
> and the Mediterranean Dwarf mammoths even smaller.
>
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:38 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth?
>
>
> > Hi Paul -
> >
> > The answer is the same thing that killed off many
> megafuana intercontinentally, instantaneously, and
> simlutaneously: global climate collapse, i.l., "nucelar
> winter".
> >
> > Now they are two causes of global dust loading, one of
> which is volcanic eruption, the other impact. Since we have
> no evidence of volcanic eruption, we are left with impact.
> >
> > PS- Sterling, Wrangle Island mammoth were already the
> size of large dogs, so small as to constitute a different
> species, using the old definition based on ability to
> interbreed.
> >
> > EP
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