Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "nail beast" for its double set of straight tusks) is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean from the Neogene of...
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elephants, as well as Stegodontidae. While most famous forms such as Gomphotherium had long lower jaws with tusks, which is the ancestral condition for...
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The Gomphotherium land bridge was a land bridge that connected Eurasia to Afro-Arabia between approximately 19 Mya (million years ago) and 15 Mya. Passage...
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million years. This gomphothere had two tusks and may have evolved from Gomphotherium. Rhynchotherium was first described in 1868 on the basis of a lower...
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long tons; 5.2 short tons). Unlike more primitive gomphotheres like Gomphotherium, it lacked lower tusks and had a shortened lower jaw. The upper tusks...
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Limi; Zhang, Hanwen; Ye, Jie; Wang, Shi-Qi (2018-05-16). "A grazing Gomphotherium in Middle Miocene Central Asia, 10 million years prior to the origin...
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jaw and lacked lower tusks, unlike more primitive gomphotheres like Gomphotherium. The genus was originally named in 1929, and has been controversial...
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lower tusks and the closer resemblance of its cheek teeth to those of Gomphotherium than to its purported close relatives. Fossils are known from Florida...
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Limi; Zhang, Hanwen; Ye, Jie; Wang, Shi-Qi (16 May 2018). "A grazing Gomphotherium in Middle Miocene Central Asia, 10 million years prior to the origin...
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