By Glenn L. Jepsen

Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003

Some of the following books and articles about elephants and mastodons are specialized and will serve as references. Others are popular and very entertaining reading. Most of them contain bibliographies of many other articles. Any good encyclopedia will also supply information about animals with trunks.

• Benedict, F. G. 1936. The Physiology of the Elephant. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication number 471. 302 pages.

• Carrington, Richard. 1959. Elephants; a Short Account of their Natural History, Evolution, and Influence on Mankind. 272 pages. New: York.

• Deraniyagala, P. E. P. 1955. Some Extinct Elephants, their Relatives, and the Two Living Species. Ceylon National Museum Publication. 153 pages.

• Trade, F. 1955. Ordre des Proboscidiens. Pages 715-783 in Volume 17, part 1. of Traite de Zoologie, edited by Pierre P. Grasse.

• Hartnagel, C. A., and Sherman C. Bishop. 1923. The Mastodons, Mammoths and Other Pleistocene Mammals of New York State. New York State Museum Bulletin, numbers 241-242. 110 pages.

• Lull, R. S., 1939. Proboscideans. Chapter 35, pages 557-583 in Organic Evolution. New York.

• Osborn, H. F. 1936-42. Proboscidea. 2 volumes, 1,675 pages. New York.

• Scott, W. B. 1937. History of the Proboscidea. Chapter 12, pages 265-301, in A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere. New York.

• Simpson, G. G. 1942. The Beginnings of Vertebrate Paleontology in North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 86, pages 130-188.

• Simpson, G. G. 1945. The Principles of Classification and a Classification of the Mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 85. 349 pages.

• Tolmachoff, 1. P. 1929. The Carcasses of the Mammoth and Rhinoceros Found in the Frozen Ground of Siberia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 23, part 1, 74 pages.

• Vaufrey, Raymond. 1955. Proboscidiens Fossiles. Pages 784-875 in Volume 17, part 1, of Traite de Zoologie, by Pierre P. Grasse.

• Warren, J. C. 1852. Description of a Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus. 219 pages. Boston.

• Watson, D. M. S. 1946. The Evolution of the Proboscidea. Biological Reviews. Vol. 21, pages 15-29.

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