Gomphotherium Burmeister 1837 (gomphothere)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

Synonyms: Genomastodon Barbour 1917, Mastodon (Trilophodon) Falconer 1857, Ocalientinus Frick 1933, Serridentinus Osborn 1923, Tatabelodon Frick 1933, Tetrabelodon Cope 1884, Trilophodon Falconer 1857, Trilophodon (Tetrabelodon) Cope 1884, Trobelodon Frick 1933

Parent taxon: Gomphotheriidae according to W. D. Lambert 2007

See also Alroy 2002, Barbour 1917, Bergounioux et al. 1953, Boessenecker 2011, Carroll 1988, Christiansen 2007, Frick 1921, Frick 1933, Gazin and Collins 1950, Lambert 1996, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Lydekker 1880, Madden and Storer 1985, Matthew 1918, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mothé et al. 2016, Osborn 1923, Osborn 1924, Qiu et al. 1981, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Sanders et al. 2010, Sanders and Miller 2002, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005, Tedford and Barghoorn 1993, Tobien 1972 and Tobien 1973

Sister taxa: Amahuacatherium, Amebelodontinae, Anancinae, Blancotherium, Cuvieroniinae, Cuvieronius, Eubelodon, Eurybelodon, Gnathabelodon, Gomphotheriinae, Konobelodon, Masthodon, Mastodon shepardii, Mastotherium, Megabelodon, Morrillia, Pediolophodon, Pentalophodon, Rhynchotheriinae, Rhynchotherium, Rhynchotherium rectidens, Selenolophodon, Serbelodon, Sinomastodon, Stegomastodon, Synconolophus, Tetralophodon, Torynobelodon

Subtaxa: Gomphotherium anguirvalis Gomphotherium angustidens Gomphotherium brewsterensis Gomphotherium connexus Gomphotherium emmonsi Gomphotherium gratum Gomphotherium nebrascensis Gomphotherium ngorora Gomphotherium productum Gomphotherium pygmaeus Gomphotherium rugosidens Gomphotherium shensiensis Gomphotherium simplicidens Gomphotherium wimani Mastodon (Trilophodon) pandionis Serridentinus filholi Serridentinus gobiensis Serridentinus mongoliensis Tatabelodon gregorii Tatabelodon riograndensis Tetrabelodon angustidens Trilophodon barstonis Trilophodon ligoniferus Trilophodon osborni Trilophodon yangziensis Trobelodon taoensis

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (2 collections), Guatemala (1), Nicaragua (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Pliocene of Kazakhstan (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (3), United States (4: Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (1)

• Neogene of Ukraine (1)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (13), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (2), France (17), Germany (15), India (3), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (3), Libya (1), Macedonia (1), Malta (1), Mexico (4), Mongolia (1), Namibia (3), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Poland (2), Portugal (10), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Spain (11), Switzerland (6), Thailand (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (4), United States (88: California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas)

• Oligocene to Miocene of China (1)

• Oligocene of Ethiopia (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 229 collections including 242 occurrences

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