Torynobelodon Temporal range:
Miocene,
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Teeth of Torynobelodon barnumbrowni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | † Amebelodontidae |
Subfamily: | † Platybelodontinae |
Genus: | †
Torynobelodon Barbour, 1929 |
Type species | |
†Torynobelodon loomisi Barbour, 1929
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Species | |
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Torynobelodon was a genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the late Miocene Epoch in Asia and North America.
Shoshani (1996) placed Torynobelodon as a synonym of Platybelodon, but Lambert and Shoshani (1998) considered it morphologically distinct to be a separate genus. [1] [2] A 2016 cladistic study found it to be more primitive than either Platybelodon and Aphanobelodon. [3]
Torynobelodon Temporal range:
Miocene,
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Teeth of Torynobelodon barnumbrowni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | † Amebelodontidae |
Subfamily: | † Platybelodontinae |
Genus: | †
Torynobelodon Barbour, 1929 |
Type species | |
†Torynobelodon loomisi Barbour, 1929
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Species | |
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Torynobelodon was a genus of large herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea). It lived during the late Miocene Epoch in Asia and North America.
Shoshani (1996) placed Torynobelodon as a synonym of Platybelodon, but Lambert and Shoshani (1998) considered it morphologically distinct to be a separate genus. [1] [2] A 2016 cladistic study found it to be more primitive than either Platybelodon and Aphanobelodon. [3]