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Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an
extinct genus of
large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants,
placed in the "shovel tusker"...
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Amebelodontidae after Li et al. 2023.
Archaeobelodon filholi mandible Skull of
Platybelodon grangeri Wang, Shi-Qi; Deng, Tao; Ye, Jie; He, Wen; Chen, Shan-Qin (3...
- used for
gathering food.
These were
similar to
those of the
Miocene Platybelodon, Archaeobelodon, and Amebelodon, but
considerably smaller. The tusks...
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meridionalis (Elephantoidea, Elephantidae)
Skeleton of the "shovel tusker"
Platybelodon (Amebelodontidae)
Scientific classification Domain:
Eukaryota Kingdom:...
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Afromastodon Amebelodon Aphanobelodon Archaeobelodon Eurybelodon Konobelodon Platybelodon Progomphotherium Protanancus Serbelodon Stenobelodon Torynobelodon †"Trilophodont...
- gomphotheres,
amebelodontids (which
includes the "shovel tuskers" like
Platybelodon), c****olophodontids and stegodontids.
Around 10
million years ago, the...
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gomphothere that may or may not be
closely related to
Amebelodon is
Platybelodon).
There has long been an ****umption that
these lower tusks were actually...
- was
presumably quite similar to the
related proboscidean Platybelodon. Like
Platybelodon, the
mandibular symphysis of this
species was
narrow and elongated...
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North America.
Shoshani (1996)
placed Torynobelodon as a
synonym of
Platybelodon, but
Lambert and
Shoshani (1998)
considered it
morphologically distinct...
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Afromastodon Amebelodon Aphanobelodon Archaeobelodon Eurybelodon Konobelodon Platybelodon Progomphotherium Protanancus Serbelodon Stenobelodon Torynobelodon †"Trilophodont...
