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gomphothere - extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene

elephant - five-toed pachyderm

genus Gomphotherium, Gomphotherium - type genus of the Gomphotheriidae

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They used similar methodology to date the remains of a variety of gomphothere (an extinct relative of the mastodon) found near the skeleton to around 40,000 years ago.

Oldest Most Complete Human Skeleton in New World

The gomphothere, another elephant relative, lumbered along the swampy Gulf coast.

Ice age impact: scientists are debating whether a comet impact triggered the extinction of large North American mammals 12,900 years ago, and put earth into a 1,400-year deep freeze

Ancient North America's Clovis people, known as mammoth and mastodon hunters of the Great Plains, may have started out as gomphothere hunters of northwestern Mexico.

Bones offer insight into Clovis origins: signs of gomphothere hunting found in northwestern Mexico

Remains of eight orders of land mammals, including insectivores, chiropterans, a lagomorph, a large carnivore, rodents, horses, a prosynthetocerine, and a gomphothere, have been recovered.

The Fort Polk Miocene terrestrial microvertebrate sites compared to those from east Texas

Neotropical anachronisms: the fruits the gomphotheres ate.

Seed Dispersal in Osage Orange (Maelura pomifera) by Squirrels (Sciurus spp.)

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