Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "nail beast" for its double set of straight tusks) is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean from the Neogene of...

elephants, as well as Stegodontidae. While most famous forms such as Gomphotherium had long lower jaws with tusks, which is the ancestral condition for...

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...

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...

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...

Eritreum Gomphotherium annectens...

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...

jaw and lacked lower tusks, unlike more primitive gomphotheres like Gomphotherium. The genus was originally named in 1929, and has been controversial...

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...

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...