Gomphotheres are an extinct group of proboscideans related to modern elephants. First appearing in Africa during the Oligocene, they dispersed into Eurasia and North America during the Miocene and arrived in South America during the …

2024年7月31日 · Meet the Gomphothere, an ancient elephant bigger with twice as many tusks! Click here to learn when it lived and how it died out!

2023年6月2日 · The bones belong to the gomphothere, a distant relative of modern elephants that roamed the earth for millions of years before being hunted to extinction 12,000 years ago.

The Gomphotheres were a varied family of extinct elephant -like animals (proboscidea). [1] . The early species had four tusks, and scratches on the teeth suggest they ate rough vegetable matter. They had a wide distribution. They were common in North America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12–1.6 million years ago.

Gomphotheres were a very successful type of early elephant. They are attributed to a second elephant radiation event, where elephants migrated out of Africa and spread into Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Gomphothere, any member of a line of extinct elephants that formed the most numerous group of the order Proboscidea and lived from perhaps as early as the end of the Oligocene Epoch (33.9 million to 23 million years ago) to the late Pleistocene …

2023年5月30日 · Researchers and volunteers with the Florida Museum of Natural History have discovered the ancient remains of several gomphotheres at a fossil site in North Florida. About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near a river in North Florida.

Gomphotherium (/ ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm /; "nail beast" for its double set of straight tusks) is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean from the Neogene of Eurasia, Africa and North America. [1][2] It is the most diverse genus of gompothere, with over a dozen valid species.

2014年7月14日 · Archaeologists have discovered artifacts of the prehistoric Clovis culture mingled with the bones of two gomphotheres – an ancient ancestor of the elephant – at an archaeological site in...

Gomphotheres were elephant-like proboscideans related to, but not members of, the modern elephant family. They were more closely related to mastodons than to mammoths or living elephants yet were more derived than mastodons, suggesting a more recent origin.