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Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "nail beast" for its
double set of
straight tusks) is an
extinct genus of
gomphothere proboscidean from the
Neogene of...
- elephants, as well as Stegodontidae.
While most
famous forms such as
Gomphotherium had long
lower jaws with tusks,
which is the
ancestral condition for...
- The
Gomphotherium land
bridge was a land
bridge that
connected Eurasia to Afro-Arabia
between approximately 19 Mya (million
years ago) and 15 Mya. P****age...
- Limi; Zhang, Hanwen; Ye, Jie; Wang, Shi-Qi (16 May 2018). "A
grazing Gomphotherium in
Middle Miocene Central Asia, 10
million years prior to the origin...
- †"Trilophodont gomphotheres"
Blancotherium Cuvieronius Eubelodon Gnathabelodon Gomphotherium Notiomastodon Rhynchotherium Sinomastodon Stegomastodon †"Tetralophodont...
- jaw and
lacked lower tusks,
unlike more
primitive gomphotheres like
Gomphotherium.
Notiomastodon ranged widely over most of
South America, and was a generalist...
- with some
paleontologists considering Megabelodon as a
synonym of
Gomphotherium. "Fossilworks: Megabelodon". fossilworks.org.
Retrieved 17 December...
- long tons; 5.2
short tons).
Unlike more
primitive gomphotheres like
Gomphotherium, it
lacked lower tusks and had a
shortened lower jaw. The
upper tusks...
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Gomphotheriidae Hay, 1922 (paraphyletic) "trilophodont gomphotheres" †
Gomphotherium Burmeister, 1837 †Blancotherium May, 2019 †Gnathabelodon
Barbour & Sternberg...
- Limi; Zhang, Hanwen; Ye, Jie; Wang, Shi-Qi (2018-05-16). "A
grazing Gomphotherium in
Middle Miocene Central Asia, 10
million years prior to the origin...
