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Megabelodon

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Megabelodon
Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene
M. lulli skeleton
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Megabelodon

Barbour (1914)
Species
  • Megabelodon lulli Barbour, 1914
  • Megabelodon joraki Frick, 1933
  • Megabelodon cruziensis Frick 1933
  • Megabelodon phippsi Cook 1928
  • Megabelodon minor Barbour 1934

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

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Megabelodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  2. ^ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1936-01-01). Proboscidea. Рипол Классик. ISBN 9785871481677.
  3. ^ 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.