[1] Material intermediate between African mammoths and Mammuthus rumanus has been reported from Bethlehem in the Levant, dating to sometime in the Late Pliocene, around 3-4 million years ago.

[4] Mammuthus rumanus is only known from fragmentary remains, typically isolated teeth, with a mandible also known.

The number of plates on the third molar teeth is around 8-10, consistently lower than is known in other non-African mammoth species, including M.

[4] Studies of specimens from Britain found that they likely consumed browse and inhabited open environments.

[5][6] In Europe, it coexisted alongside other proboscideans, including the mastodon species "Mammut" borsoni and the "tetralophodont gomphothere" Anancus arvernensis, likely niche partitioning with the latter by occupying different habitats.