Gnathabelodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Gnathabelodontinae |
Genus: | †Gnathabelodon Barbour and Sternberg, 1935[1] |
Species: | †G. thorpei
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Binomial name | |
†Gnathabelodon thorpei Barbour and Sternberg, 1935
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Gnathabelodon is an extinct genus of gomphothere (a sister group to modern elephants) endemic to North America that includes species that lived during the Middle to Late Miocene.
"Gnathabelodon" buckneri Sellards, 1940 has been renamed Blancotherium.[2]