Gomphothere - Wikipedia Gomphotheres are an extinct group of proboscideans related to modern elephants First appearing in Africa during the Oligocene, they dispersed into Eurasia and North America during the Miocene and arrived in South America during the Pleistocene as part of the Great American Interchange
Gomphothere | Prehistoric Mammal, Fossilized Remains | Britannica Gomphothere, any member of a line of extinct elephants that formed the most numerous group of the order Proboscidea and lived from perhaps as early as the end of the Oligocene Epoch (33 9 million to 23 million years ago) to the late Pleistocene (2 6 million to 11,700 years ago) and early Holocene
Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida Gomphotheres thrived in open savannahs, which were once common in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas But a sustained pattern of global cooling that began about 14 million years ago led to the prominence of vast grasslands, which gradually replaced savannahs and caused gomphothere diversity to wane
Gomphothere - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gomphotheres were a varied family of extinct elephant -like animals (proboscidea) [1] The early species had four tusks, and scratches on the teeth suggest they ate rough vegetable matter They had a wide distribution They were common in North America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12–1 6 million years ago
Gomphothere | Kirkby Teaching Resources Gomphotheres were elephant-like proboscideans related to, but not members of, the modern elephant family They were more closely related to mastodons than to mammoths or living elephants yet were more derived than mastodons, suggesting a more recent origin
Gomphotheres Facts - Fact Animal Gomphotheres are known for their very strange faces, but even this is not something common to all members of the family, and some animals previously classified as Gomphotheres have now been moved to their own family groups The major focus of Gomphothere classification is their tusks and tushes