- "trilophodont
gomphotheres", and "tetralophodont
gomphotheres". "Tetralophodont
gomphotheres" are
distinguished from "trilophodont
gomphotheres" by the presence...
-
indicates that
similar behaviour occurred in
extinct proboscideans like
gomphotheres and mastodons.
Elephants often discharge a thick, tar-like secretion...
- distinguished. The
gomphotheres belong to the
second phase,
which began in the
lower Miocene. The main
characteristic of true
gomphotheres is the formation...
-
forming a
sister group to
gomphotheres. Others, however,
suggest that
amebelodonts are an
unnatural ****emblage of
gomphotheres which independently evolved...
- (mastodons), as well as
Elephantida (amebelodonts, c****olophodonts,
gomphotheres,
stegodontids and elephantids). All
members of
Elephantimorpha have the...
-
tusks that
further distinguish it from A. fricki. Like
other typical gomphotheres,
Amebelodon possessed two sets of tusks, one
upper set, (much like those...
-
elephants and
different from
those of
other extinct proboscideans like
gomphotheres and mammutids, with both
groups having a
proal jaw
movement utilizing...
-
became extinct (including mammutids,
gomphotheres and deinotheres), with the
exception of Stegodon.
Gomphotheres dis****d into
South America during this...
- may
serve as seed
distribution vectors).
Daniel Janzen suggested that
gomphotheres (extinct elephant-like animals) may have
previously been responsible...
- to be
paraphyletic and the
ancestor of
later gomphothere genera,
including the "tetralophodont
gomphotheres" such as
Tetralophodon which are
probably ancestral...
