Looked this up:
What’s the Difference Between a Mammoth and a Mastodon?
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54120/whats-difference-between-mammoth-and-mastodon
Mammoths lived in a cave in Kentucky. And they liked fried chicken and bluegrass music.
Reading the article it would appear that this animal could have been a death from the great bolide fall of 12,000+ years ago. SC - Time to put up the book again.