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   ocr: kinds of proboscideans, the African and Asian elephants. But in the past there were many more. They lived on all continents except Antarctica and Australia, and even on islands in the Arctic. Yet unlike elephants today, mastodons ranged widely over the northern continents. The discovery of the mastodon skeleton, and Warren's serious treatment of it, mark the beginning of vertebrate paleontology in this country. 3 3