D. giganteum skeleton cast from the Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Paleontology
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Proboscidea
Family:
†Deinotheriidae
Subfamily:
†Deinotheriinae
Genus:
†Deinotherium Kaup, 1829
Type species
†Deinotherium giganteum
Kaup, 1829
Species
D. bozasi (Arambourg, 1934)
D. giganteum (Kaup, 1829)
D. indicum (Falconer, 1845)
D.? levius (Jourdan, 1861)
D.? proavum (Eichwald, 1831)
Deinotherium is an extinct genus of large, elephant-like proboscideans that lived from about the middle-Miocene until the early Pleistocene. Although its appearance is reminiscent of modern elephants, Deinotherium possessed a notably more flexible neck, with limbs adapted to a more cursorial lifestyle, as well as tusks which grew down and curved back from the lower jaw, as opposed to the upper mandible tusks seen in extant elephants. Deinotherium was a widespread genus, ranging from East Africa, north to southern Europe, and east to the Indian subcontinent. They were primarily browsing animals, with a diet largely consisting of leaves. The genus most likely went extinct due to environmental changes, such as forested areas gradually being replaced by open grasslands, during the latter half of the Neogene. Deinotherium thrived the longest in Africa, where they were found into the early Pleistocene.
Deinotherium is an extinct genus of large, elephant-like proboscideans that lived from about the middle-Miocene until the early Pleistocene. Although its...
the only three known genera are Chilgatherium, Prodeinotherium, and Deinotherium. These form an evolutionary succession, with each new genus replacing...
reassigned to Deinotherium. During the 1970s, however, the two genera were once again separated, with Prodeinotherium diagnosed to include Deinotherium bavaricum...
mammoths persisting on Wrangel Island until around 4,000 years ago. Deinotherium Embrithopoda Eritherium azzouzorum Zygolophodon Palaeoloxodon namadicus...
upper tusks, but could grow to large sizes in some species, like in Deinotherium (which lacks upper tusks), where they could grow over 1.5 metres (4.9 ft)...
giraffe Palaeotragus, the horse Hipparion, the elephant-like proboscideans Deinotherium and (possibly) Choerolophodon, and the colobine monkey Microcolobus....
d'histoire naturelle, that came from the giant bones, and identified a Deinotherium. The bones are housed in the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative...
identified with confidence. The teeth differ from those of Prodeinotherium, Deinotherium, and the various barytheres in various details, enough to show that this...
fossil graveyard, including bones from the Pterodactylus, Megatherium, Deinotherium, Glyptodon, a mastodon and the preserved body of a prehistoric man. Lidenbrock...
deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid Deinotherium. In October 2017, scientists...
tall. Later studies have shown that it is a Late Miocene proboscidean Deinotherium or close relative. The existence of a large tombstone from early reports...
to or synonymous with Mastodon or Deinotherium. Later that year, he formally synonymised Diprotodon with Deinotherium as Dinotherium Australe, which he...
day mammals first appeared. Giant ungulates like Paraceratherium and Deinotherium evolved to rule the grasslands. The evolution of grass also brought primates...
century to the present day, scholars pointed out that the fossil skulls of Deinotherium giganteum, found in Crete and Greece, might have been interpreted as...
represented in the Miocene-age geological deposits on Samos, namely Deinotherium proavum, Choerolophodon pentelici, and Konobelodon atticus. They suggest...
in the world. Main entrance The worldwide only intact skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum The butterflies chamber "About the Museum". Grigore Antipa...
2021.1898976 Falconer, H. (1845) “Description of some fossil remains of Deinotherium, Giraffe, and other mammalia, from Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay, Western...
P T J K Pg N Early Eocene to Early Pleistocene Partial skeleton of a Deinotherium gigantissimum in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History...
(the largest land mammals of the Pliocene were such proboscideans as Deinotherium, Anancus and Mammut borsoni), and hyraxes migrated north from Africa...
having coined popular prehistoric taxa like Pterosauria, Machairodus, Deinotherium, Dorcatherium, and Chalicotherium. He was born at Darmstadt. After studying...
longest tusks, 5.02 m (16.5 ft) long from basis to tip along the curve. Deinotherium was the largest proboscidean in Deinotheriidae family. Bones retrieved...
largest land mammals, Reconstructed jaws of megalodon (Otodus megalodon) Deinotherium Kelenken guillermoi Gastornis gigantea The greater rhea The eastern gorilla...