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A molar of Gomphotherium hondurensis, a very rare proboscidean endemic to Central America and was the first vertebrate fossil i handed.

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2022-11-25

Probably the largest land mammals in Central America during the late Miocene (though Sibotherium is only known from Costa Rica), Gomphotherium hondurensis and the megathere Sibotherium ka.

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2022-08-30

Ayt what are y’all’s top 4 favorite proboscideans
Here’s mine:

1: Philippine stegodon
2: Gomphotherium
3: Stegotretrabelodon
4: Paleoloxodon(big boi)

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2022-07-01

Gomphotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidean that lived in the early Miocene of North America.

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2021-04-08

molar of Gomphotherium hondurensis, a small form from Central America, in El Salvador this animal is known from San Miguel and Morazan dating from the late Miocene (picture is rather old, from my first visits to the MUHNES).

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2021-02-06

The skull of Gompy, nickname from Gomphotherium productum, was first discovered and excavated in 1988 near Santa Cruz, NM by Jack Whetstone. This Miocene elephant was estimated to be a young female and she had both upper and lower tusks! Image credit Pedro Toledo.

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2020-09-05

Here are my top 4 extinct proboscideans, challenge by
- Stegoterabelodon syrticus
- Deinotherium bozasi
- Palaeoloxodon namadicus
- Gomphotherium angustidens
(love em all despite the rankings)

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2020-08-24

Results from the
Austrolimulus, Xenorhinotherium, Qarmoutus and Gomphotherium (baby).

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2020-02-03

Gomphotherium, shovel tusk, lived through the Miocene into Pliocene, 23-5 million years ago. Stood at 3m/9.8ft tall. Discovered in Texas. Related to elephants🐘. Had a shorter neck and long tusks on the lower jaw, perhaps for scooping up food.

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2019-10-17

Gomphotherium, a proboscidean from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Unlike its distant modern relatives, Gomphotherium had 4 tusks: 2 longer ones on the upper jaw, and two shorter, shovel-like ones on the lower jaw.

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2018-11-25

Gomphotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidean that lived during the early Miocene in North America.

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2017-12-03