Gnathabelodon

Gnathabelodon
Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Binomial name
Gnathabelodon thorpei
Barbour and Sternberg, 1935

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]

  1. ^ Barbour, E.H. and Sternberg, G. (1935). Gnathabelodon thorpei, gen. et sp. nov. A new mud-grubbing mastodon. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum, 42: 395-404.
  2. ^ Steven R. May (2019). The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 22 (1): Article number 22.1.15. doi:10.26879/929.