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Encyclopedia > Gomphotheriidae

Gomphothere is a name given to a dirverse group of extinct elephant-like animals, proboscideans). They differed from elephants in their tooth structure, particularly chewing surfaces on the molar teeth.


They appeared in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12-1.6 million years ago.


External links

  • Dallas Museum of Natural History (http://www.dallasdino.org/exhibits/elephants/gomphothere.asp)

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Some taxonomists consider the stegodonts as a subfamily of the Elephantidae.
Both Stegolophodon and the primitive elephants were derived from the Gomphotheriidae.
The most important difference with the Elephantidae can be observed in the molars.
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