According to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, these animals are thought to have possibly existed in North or South America.
The reference occurs in the Book of Ether, which is purported to be a history of a nation of early Americans called the Jaredites who are said to have left the Tower of Babel and traveled by barge to the Western Hemisphere.
Some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have speculated about what the terms refer to, including: Mainstream paleontologists believe that mastodons and mammoths became extinct by 4000 BCE.
[5] This is the time period wherein Jaredites would have lived, but the geography and climate are far from matching the lands proposed by Book of Mormon scholars and apologists.
For example, Chris Heimerdinger, a popular LDS novelist, chose to make cureloms mammoths in his time-traveling adventure Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent.