Pediolophodon
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Pediolophodon |
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Pediolophodon is a genus of extinct elephant from the middle to late Miocene of North America (Nebraska and Texas). Two species are recognized, P. campester and P. fricki. Both were originally assigned to the Old World genus Tetralophodon, but discoveries in the Kepler Quarry, Nebraska, showed these taxa to be generically distinct.[1][2][3]
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of New Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary Formations of the West. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:219-231
- ↑ H. F. Osborn. 1936. The Proboscidea 1 & 2:1-1675.
- ↑ W. D. Lambert. 2007. New tetralophodont gomphothere material from Nebraska and its implications for the status of North American Tetralophodon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):676-682.
