†Afromastodon Pickford 2003 (gomphothere)
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Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Full reference: M. Pickford. 2003. New Proboscidea from the Miocene strata in th elower Orange River Valley, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19:207-256
Parent taxon: Amebelodontidae according to S.-Q. Wang et al. 2017
See also Pickford 2003 and Sanders et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Amebelodon, Archaeobelodon, Platybelodon, Platybelodontinae, Progomphotherium, Protanancus
Subtaxa: Afromastodon coppensi
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution: found only at Arrisdrift (Miocene of Namibia)
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