Temporal range: Pliocene-Early Pleistocene ~4–1.2 Ma
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S. mirificus fossil at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Proboscidea
Family:
†Gomphotheriidae
Genus:
†Stegomastodon Pohlig, 1912
Species
†S. aftoniae
†S. mirificus
†S. nebrascensis
†S. primitivus
Synonyms
Morrillia
Stegomastodon ('roof breast tooth') is an extinct genus of gomphotheres. It ranged throughout North America from the Pliocene (early Blancan ~4 Ma), to the Early Pleistocene (early Irvingtonian, ~1.2 Ma). The former South American species have been synonymized with Notiomastodon platensis.
Stegomastodon ('roof breast tooth') is an extinct genus of gomphotheres. It ranged throughout North America from the Pliocene (early Blancan ~4 Ma), to...
tonnes. Like other brevirostrine gomphotheres such as Cuvieronius and Stegomastodon, Notiomastodon had a shortened lower jaw and lacked lower tusks, unlike...
Gisele R. (December 2010). "Population structure of the gomphothere Stegomastodon waringi (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae) from the Pleistocene...
Parks under agreement with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. An stegomastodon fossil was discovered there on June 9, 2014. The dam serves as a way...
following fossils have been reported from the formation: Mammals Glyptodon Stegomastodon platensis Tapirus olivaresi Birds Giganhinga List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...
2-million-year-old stegomastodon, a relative of true elephants, in excellent condition. That is one of the most complete finds of a stegomastodon in the area...
ancestral to later New World gomphothere genera, such as Cuvieronius, Stegomastodon and Rhynchotherium. Asian populations of Gomphotherium are suggested...
thought to have resulted in the extinction of the grazing gomphothere Stegomastodon around 1.2 million years ago, as a result of competitive exclusion as...
Trilophodon (= Gomphotherium), Zygolophodon, Rhynchotherium, Cuvieronius, Stegomastodon, Notiomastodon, Stegolophodon, and Choerolophodon. As a result of the...
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