Megabelodon
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Genus: | †Megabelodon Barbour (1914)
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Megabelodon is an extinct gomphotherid genus of proboscid which inhabited North America in from the Miocene to the Pliocene. Specimens were found in Nevada and New Mexico.[1][2] The genus has been disputed, with some paleontologists considering Megabelodon as a synonym of Gomphotherium.[3]
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Megabelodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
- ^ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1936-01-01). Proboscidea. Рипол Классик. ISBN 9785871481677.
- ^ Janis, Christine M.; Scott, Kathleen M.; Jacobs, Louis L. (1998-05-28). Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521355193.