Gomphotherium
Extinct genus of elephant-like mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Comphotherium.
Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "nail beast" for its double set of straight tusks) is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean from the Neogene of Eurasia, Africa and North America.[1][2] The genus is probably paraphyletic.[3][4]
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Gomphotherium | |
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Specimen of Gomphotherium productum at the American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
Genus: | †Gomphotherium Burmeister, 1837 |
Type species | |
Gomphotherium angustidens (Cuvier, 1817) | |
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