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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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. …

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 …

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 …