- transition, the
deinotheres were (and remained) the
largest animals walking the Earth. The late
Miocene was the
heyday of the
giant deinotheres. D. giganteum...
- and the
Asian elephant.
Extinct members of
Proboscidea include the
deinotheres, mastodons,
gomphotheres and stegodonts. The
family Elephantidae also...
-
species of
deinotheres are
based upon
limited material compared to only a
small number of the species. Thus, many
species of
deinotheres are no longer...
- that,
while fairly basal,
predates the
split between elephantiforms and
deinotheres.
Seven species have been named,
though only
three (M. lyonsi, M. gracile...
-
molars and rear
premolars were
vertical shearing teeth, and
suggest that
deinotheres became an
independent evolutionary branch very
early on; the
other premolars...
- animal, and has been
placed in its own subfamily.
Compared to
later deinotheres,
Chilgatherium was
quite small,
about 2 m (6.6 ft) tall at the shoulder...
- Bridge.
Proboscidean groups prominent during the
Miocene include the
deinotheres,
along with the more
advanced elephantimorphs,
including mammutids (mastodons)...
- Press. ISBN 9781610604406. Naish, D. (2008). "Chinese
black rhinos and
deinotheres,
giant sengis, and yet more new lemurs". ScienceBlogs.
Retrieved 2013-04-12...
- 1822
while Johann Jakob Kaup in 1833
alternatively attributed them to
deinotheres (which at that time were
considered enigmatic). Also in 1833, Kaup described...
-
generally rare in
Eurasia in
comparison to
contemporary gomphotheres and
deinotheres.
During the late
early Miocene,
around 16.5
million years ago, a po****tion...
