Extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals
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Platybelodon
Temporal range: Miocene, 15–10 Ma
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Platybelodon grangeri skeleton, Inner Mongolia Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Proboscidea
Family:
†Amebelodontidae
Subfamily:
†Platybelodontinae
Genus:
†Platybelodon Borissiak, 1928
Type species
†Platybelodon danovi
Borissiak, 1928
Species
P. grangeri Osborn, 1929
P. beliajevae Alexeeva, 1971
P. tongxinensis Chen, 1978
P. tetralophus Wang and Li, 2022
Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants, placed in the "shovel tusker" family Amebelodontidae. Species lived during the middle Miocene Epoch in Africa, Asia and the Caucasus.
Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants, placed in the "shovel tusker"...
gomphotheres, amebelodontids (which includes the "shovel tuskers" like Platybelodon), choerolophodontids and stegodontids. Around 10 million years ago, the...
used for gathering food. These were similar to those of the Miocene Platybelodon, Archaeobelodon, and Amebelodon, but considerably smaller. The tusks...
gomphotheres, amebelodontids (which includes the "shovel tuskers" like Platybelodon), choerolophodontids and stegodontids. Around 10 million years ago, the...
was presumably quite similar to the related proboscidean Platybelodon. Like Platybelodon, the mandibular symphysis of this species was narrow and elongated...
Amebelodontidae (which includes "shovel tuskers" with flattened lower tusks like Platybelodon) are sometimes considered gomphotheres sensu lato, though some authors...
North America. Shoshani (1996) placed Torynobelodon as a synonym of Platybelodon, but Lambert and Shoshani (1998) considered it morphologically distinct...
Valley theme park chain. The Rock and Bonsai Museum includes a mounted platybelodon skeleton, many unique stones, a quartz crystal the size of an automobile...
for Japanese Studies. Chocolate Egg Japanese Animal Collection Series Platybelodon three-dimensional figure for わけあって絶滅しました。 [ja]) Ito Jakuchu's chicken...
for approximately 0.9 million years. Archaeobelodon was an ancestor of Platybelodon and Amebelodon. Archaeobelodon had a trunk and tusks. It reached a weight...
gomphothere that may or may not be closely related to Amebelodon is Platybelodon). There has long been an assumption that these lower tusks were actually...
the tip of the lower jaw was similar to that of the "shovel-tuskers" (Platybelodon and Amebelodon); however, Gnathabelodon species are distinct in having...
fauna and flora of Arabia. Large exhibits include the skeleton of a Platybelodon and Ichthyosaur. The gallery concludes with stone age man. Arabian Kingdoms...
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