order Proboscidea

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order Proboscidea - an order of animals including elephants and mammoths

Proboscidea

animal order - the order of animals

Eutheria, subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

proboscidean, proboscidian - massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

Elephantidae, family Elephantidae - elephants

family Mammutidae, family Mastodontidae, Mammutidae - extinct family: mastodons

family Gomphotheriidae, Gomphotheriidae - elephants extinct since the Pleistocene

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Mastodons are members of the extinct genus "Mammut" of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth, which belongs to the family Elephantidae.

(SCI) 6 MASTODON FOSSILS DISCOVERED IN ELMACIK IN 4 YEARS

If we do not "bring elephants back and offer them a chance for an evolving, deepening citizenship" in the current natural world, she says, "then Order Proboscidea will never again produce American endemics; the evolution of Order Proboscidea in the NewWorld will be over." For Barlow, that would be unconscionable and unimaginable--a terrible evil.

Recreating the creation

Order PROBOSCIDEA (Illiger, 1811) Family GOMPHOTERIIDAE (Cabrera, 1929) Subfamily RHYNCHOROSTINAE (Osborn, 1918)

First record of Rhynchotherium blicki (Frick, 1933) for the late cenozoic of Costa Rica