Serbelodon
| Serbelodon Temporal range: Middle Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Serbelodon Frick, 1933 |
| Type species | |
| †Serbelodon barbourensis Frick, 1933 | |
| Species | |
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†S. barbourensis Frick, 1933 | |
Serbelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean. It was a gomphothere "shovel-tusker". It had tusks and a trunk. It lived in North America during the Miocene Epoch, and may have evolved from Amebelodon.
Serbelodon burnhami was named after Frederick Russell Burnham the brother-in-law of the fossil's discoverer John C. Blick.[1]
References
- ↑ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (June 29, 1933). "Serbelodon Burnhami, a new Shovel-Tusker from California" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (639): 1–5. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
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