Gnathabelodon
Extinct genus of proboscidean / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gnathabelodon is an extinct genus of gomphothere (a sister group to modern elephants) endemic to North America that includes species that lived during the Middle to Late Miocene.
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Gnathabelodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Gnathabelodontinae |
Genus: | †Gnathabelodon Barbour and Sternberg, 1935[1] |
Species: | †G. thorpei |
Binomial name | |
†Gnathabelodon thorpei Barbour and Sternberg, 1935 | |
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"Gnathabelodon" buckneri Sellards, 1940 has been renamed Blancotherium.[2]