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    Deinotherium is an extinct genus of large, elephant-like proboscideans that lived from about the middle-Miocene until the early Pleistocene. Although its...
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    the only three known genera are Chilgatherium, Prodeinotherium, and Deinotherium. These form an evolutionary succession, with each new genus replacing...
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    reassigned to Deinotherium. During the 1970s, however, the two genera were once again separated, with Prodeinotherium diagnosed to include Deinotherium bavaricum...
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    †Moeritherium †Numidotherium †Phosphatherium †Saloumia †Barytheriidae Barytherium Omanitherium †Deinotheriidae Chilgatherium Deinotherium Prodeinotherium...
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    upper tusks, but could grow to large sizes in some species, like in Deinotherium (which lacks upper tusks), where they could grow over 1.5 metres (4.9 ft)...
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    mammoths persisting on Wrangel Island until around 4,000 years ago. Deinotherium Embrithopoda Eritherium azzouzorum Zygolophodon Palaeoloxodon namadicus...
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  • d'histoire naturelle, that came from the giant bones, and identified a Deinotherium. The bones are housed in the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative...
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    (the largest land mammals of the Pliocene were such proboscideans as Deinotherium, Anancus, and Mammut borsoni), and hyraxes migrated north from Africa...
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    †Moeritherium †Numidotherium †Phosphatherium †Saloumia †Barytheriidae Barytherium Omanitherium †Deinotheriidae Chilgatherium Deinotherium Prodeinotherium...
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    deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid Deinotherium. In October 2017, scientists...
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