Phiomia | |
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P. serridens skull from Faiyum, Egypt, with 20th century plaster model. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Suborder: | Elephantiformes |
Family: | †Phiomiidae |
Genus: | †Phiomia Andrews and Beadnell, 1902 |
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Phiomia is an extinct genus of basal elephantiform proboscidean that lived in what is now Northern Africa during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene some 37–30 million years ago.[1] "Phiomia serridens" means "saw-toothed animal of Faiyum".