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- 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
Gomphotheres inhabited grasslands, forests, and marshes, with some species evolving highly specialized teeth for grazing and browsing in each environment Similar to modern elephants, gomphotheres had a trunk, or proboscis, which developed from the nose and upper lip
- Gomphotherium - The Weilded Beast - An Early Elephant - Facts and . . .
Gomphotheres were a very successful type of early elephant They are attributed to a second elephant radiation event, where elephants migrated out of Africa and spread into Europe, Asia, and the Americas
- Meet Gomphotheres - The Gigantic Ancient Elephant With FOUR Deadly . . .
While similar in look to their modern descendants, ancient gomphotheres had four massive tusks that they used to defend themselves What is a Gomphothere? Gomphotheres first appeared at the end of the Eocene Epoch, around 34 million years ago They lived through the Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs
- 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
- The Gomphotheriidae - University of California Museum of Paleontology
Gomphotheres were large proboscidean mammals that had global distribution (except for Antarctica and Australia) during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene Together, they represent the stem group of stegodontids and elephants, forming a paraphyletic group
- Gomphotheres Facts - Fact Animal
Gomphotheres Profile Historically, palaeontologists recreate ancient animals quite wrongly Early TV dinosaurs stood in hilarious, unrealistic positions with shrink-wrapped skin, and the thumb claw of the [Megatherium] was originally placed on its head before people realised what it was
- Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida
About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida Although their deaths likely occurred hundreds of years apart, their bodies were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals that had me
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