Locations of gomphothere fossil finds in South America, modern classification by Mothé et al[1]
Amahuacatherium peruvium
Cuvieronius hyodon
Notiomastodon platensis
Gomphotheriidae indet.
Amahuacatherium peruvium
Cuvieronius hyodon
Notiomastodon platensis
Gomphotheriidae indet.This is a list of gomphothere fossils found in South America. Gomphotheres were elephant-like mammals that lived from the Middle Miocene (approximately 12 million years ago) to the Holocene (6000 years BP).
The following species have been described in twentieth and twenty-first century paleontological literature about South America.[2] An alternative proposal is considered within the scientific community,[3][4][5][6] listed below.
Modern classification
- Cuvieronius (Osborn 1923)
- C. hyodon (Fischer 1814) (type)
- Notiomastodon (Cabrera 1929)
- N. platensis (Mothé et al. 2012) (type)
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