Rhynchotherium
Extinct genus of proboscid / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhynchotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidea endemic to North America and Central America during the Miocene through Pliocene from 13.650 to 3.6 Ma, living for approximately 10 million years.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
Genus: | †Rhynchotherium Falconer, 1868 |
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†Rhynchotherium falconeri Osborn, 1923 | |
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This gomphothere had two tusks and may have evolved from Gomphotherium.[2]