Gomphothere
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gomphothere-181-8677265
title:
Gomphothere
text:
Gomphotheres are an extinct group of proboscideans related to modern elephants, widespread across Afro-Eurasia and North America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs and dispersed into South America during the Pleistocene as part of the Great American Interchange. Gomphotheres are a paraphyletic group ancestral to Elephantidae, which contains modern elephants, as well as Stegodontidae. While most famous forms such as Gomphotherium had long lower jaws with tusks, the ancestral condition for the
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct family of proboscidean mammals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomphothere
date created:
2004-11-21T16:54:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T23:37:38Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Gophotherium_at_AMNH.jpg","width":2912,"height":2082}
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13
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