Proboscidea - Wikipedia Proboscidea ( ˌproʊbəˈsɪdiə ; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of Afrotheria paenungulate mammals described by J Illiger in 1811 It encompasses the elephants (family Elephantidae) and their extinct relatives [1]
Proboscidean | Evolution, Adaptations Extinction | Britannica Although only three species of elephant are extant today, more than 160 extinct proboscidean species have been identified from remains found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica Most of these were called gomphotheres, which belonged to a different family from elephants
PROBOSCIDEAN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of PROBOSCIDEAN is any of an order (Proboscidea) of large mammals comprising the elephants and extinct related forms (such as mastodons)
Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea Proboscideans include the living and fossil elephants such as mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, stegodonts, and deinotheres The fossil record of proboscideans is very extensive with about 50 genera with 185 species
Proboscidea (elephants) | INFORMATION | Animal Diversity Web Elephants are the survivors of a radiation of giant herbivores that once were diverse and widely distributed, including as many as seven families and, through the Tertiary, many dozens of species They are classified as "subungulates" and believed to be related to hyraxes and sirenians
The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity In this study, we comprehensively re-examine the rich fossil record of proboscideans in its entirety and investigate the interactions between proboscidean diversification and the timing and
The Proboscidea Phosphatherium escuilliei is the earliest recognized proboscidean from the late Paleocene (58 mya) of Morocco This ancestral proboscidean was less than one meter tall at the shoulder
Proboscidea, the mammal order of Trunk animals - elephant. se The mammal order Proboscidea was described by C Illigeer in 1881 and was named according to its most noteworthy characteristic, the trunk (Latin proboscis), although the earliest proboscideans lacked trunks