User:Tisquesusa/sandbox/South American gomphotheres
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This is a list of gomphothere fossils found in South America. Gomphotheres were elephant-like mammals that lived from the Middle Miocene (approximately 12 million years ago) to the Holocene (6000 years BP).
The following species have been described in twentieth and twenty-first century paleontological literature about South America.[1] An alternative proposal is considered within the scientific community,[2][3][4][5] listed below.
Original classification
- Gomphotheriidae
- Cuvieroniinae
- Cuvieronius (Osborn 1923)
- C. arellanoi (Ochoterena & Silva 1970)
- C. hyodon (=C. humboldti) (Fischer 1814) (type)
- C. priestleyi (Hay & Cook 1930)
- C. tarijensis (Cabrera 1929)
- C. tropicus (Cope 1884) (=C. oligobunis (Cope 1893))
- Haplomastodon (Hoffstetter 1950)
- H. chimborazi (Proaño 1922)
- H. guayasensis (Hoffstetter 1952)
- H. waringi (Holland 1920) (type)
- Notiomastodon (Cabrera 1929)
- N. ornatus (=S. platensis)
- N. platensis (Mothé et al. 2012) (type)
- N. vidali (Castellanos 1948)
- Stegomastodon (Pohlig 1912)
- S. mirificus (Leidy 1858) (= "S. successor, S. arizonae, S. texanus") (type)
- S. platensis (Ameghino 1888)
- S. primitivus (Osborn 1936) (=S. rexroadensis)
- S. superbus (Casamiguela et al. 1996)
- S. waringi (Hoffstetter 1950)
- Cuvieronius (Osborn 1923)
- Cuvieroniinae
Proposed reclassification
- Cuvieronius (Osborn 1923)
- C. hyodon (Fischer 1814) (type)
- Notiomastodon (Cabrera 1929)
- N. platensis (Mothé et al. 2012) (type)