Rhynchotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidea endemic to North America and Central America during the Miocene through Pliocene from 13.650 to 3.6 Ma, living for approximately 10 million years.[1]
This gomphothere had two tusks and may have evolved from Gomphotherium.[2]
^Paleobiology database: Rhynchotherium basic info
^Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; Polaco, O. J.; Laurito, C.; Johnson, E.; Alberdi, M. T.; Zamora, A. L. V. (2007). "The proboscideans (Mammalia) from Mesoamerica". Quaternary International. 169–170. Elsevier: 17–23. Bibcode:2007QuInt.169...17A. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.12.017.
Rhynchotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidea endemic to North America and Central America during the Miocene through Pliocene from 13.650 to 3.6 Ma...
Miocene period. Rhynchotherium blicki List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Guatemala Herreria Formation at Fossilworks.org Rhynchotherium blicki at...
America. It is considered closely related to, if not derived from, Rhynchotherium, a North American gomphothere genus known from the Late Miocene and...
New World gomphothere genera, such as Cuvieronius, Stegomastodon and Rhynchotherium. Asian populations of Gomphotherium are suggested to have been ancestral...
known as the subfamily Cuvieroniinae, which in turn are grouped with Rhynchotherium in a larger group called Rhynchotheriinae. Some researchers have proposed...
survive the Blancan, such as Borophagus, Equus simplicidens, Nannippus, Rhynchotherium, and Titanotyopus, are present. Additionally, other genera such as Camelops...
World populations of Gomphotherium, possibly via the intermediate genus Rhynchotherium. The earliest species of the genus appeared during the Pliocene (Blancan)...
reclassified to, such as Anancus, Trilophodon (= Gomphotherium), Zygolophodon, Rhynchotherium, Cuvieronius, Stegomastodon, Notiomastodon, Stegolophodon, and Choerolophodon...
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