Megabelodon

Megabelodon
Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene
M. lulli skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Gomphotheriidae
Genus: †Megabelodon
Barbour, 1914
Type species
†Megabelodon lulli
Barbour, 1914
Species
  • M. cruziensis Frick 1933
  • M. joraki Frick, 1933
  • M. lulli
  • M. minor Barbour 1934
  • M. phippsi Cook 1928

Megabelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean which inhabited North America in from the Miocene to the Pliocene. Specimens were found in Nevada and New Mexico.[1][2] The genus has been disputed, with some paleontologists considering Megabelodon as a synonym of Gomphotherium,[3] while others have considered it to be a genus of amebelodontid.[4]

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Megabelodon". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1936-01-01). Proboscidea. Рипол Классик. ISBN 9785871481677.
  3. ^ Janis, Christine M.; Scott, Kathleen M.; Jacobs, Louis L. (1998-05-28). Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521355193.
  4. ^ Li, Chunxiao; Deng, Tao; Wang, Yang; Sun, Fajun; Wolff, Burt; Jiangzuo, Qigao; Ma, Jiao; Xing, Luda; Fu, Jiao (2023-11-28), "Longer mandible or nose? Co-evolution of feeding organs in early elephantiforms", eLife, 12, doi:10.7554/eLife.90908.1, retrieved 2024-05-29