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Meaning of gomphotherium



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gomphotherium
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Giant beast or very large. It was a species of extinct proboscis that lived in the Miocene and Pliocene. It was related to today's elephants, although they differed greatly in the dental structure.

  



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Gomphotherium : Extinct genus of proboscised mammals from the family of gonfotérides who lived in the early Miocene and in the Pliocene em what is now Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

  










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