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    Proboscidea (/ˌproʊbəˈsɪdiə/; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals...
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    within the order Proboscidea. Elephantidae has been revised by various authors to include or exclude other extinct proboscidean genera. Elephantids are...
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    Genus (redirect from Genera (biology))
    Genus (/ˈdʒiːnəs/; pl.: genera /ˈdʒɛnərə/) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil...
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    Proboscidea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae, some of whose species are known as devil's claw, devil's horn, ram's horn, or unicorn...
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  • There are currently 1,258 genera, 161 families, 27 orders, and around 5,937 recognized living species of mammal. Mammalian taxonomy is in constant flux...
    77 KB (6,802 words) - 12:52, 24 June 2025
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    review of craniofacial evolutionary anatomy in elephants and extinct Proboscidea". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25578. ISSN 1932-8486. PMID 39380178...
    32 KB (3,083 words) - 17:56, 23 June 2025
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    Elephas (category Mammal genera)
    "On the type material of Elephas hysudrindicus Dubois, 1908 (Mammalia, Proboscidea)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (1): e1425211. Bibcode:2018JVPal...
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    Avilla; Desi Zhao; Guangpu Xie; Boyang Sun (2016). "A new Mammutidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China". Anais da...
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    Hyraxes share several unusual characteristics with mammalian orders Proboscidea (elephants and their extinct relatives) and Sirenia (manatees and dugongs)...
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    the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct relatives include mammoths and mastodons. Distinctive features...
    132 KB (14,538 words) - 07:51, 30 June 2025
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    Palaeoloxodon (category Prehistoric placental genera)
    "The Fossil Record of Continental Elephants and Mammoths (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) in Greece", Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1, Cham:...
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    the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family...
    167 KB (18,745 words) - 02:17, 27 June 2025
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    Gomphotherium (category Prehistoric placental genera)
    Sanders, William J. (7 July 2023). Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea (1 ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 94. doi:10.1201/b20016. ISBN 978-1-315-11891-8...
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    Notiomastodon (category Prehistoric placental genera)
    the Proboscidea. American Museum Novitates 99, 1923, S. 1–4 Henry Fairfield Osborn: Additional new genera and species of the mastodontoid Proboscidea. American...
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  • researched in botany and mineralogy. Among genera he named are the flowering plant genera Penstemon and Proboscidea and the fern genus Thelypteris. Among species...
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    Amebelodon (category Monotypic prehistoric placental genera)
    The Proboscidea: Trends in Evolution and Paleoecology. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. Lambert, W. D., and J. Shoshani, 1998. The Proboscidea. In...
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    D. (1999). "Elephant Loxodonta africana Family Elephantidae, Order Proboscidea". The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals Including...
    61 KB (6,436 words) - 17:20, 23 June 2025
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    Choerolophodon (category Prehistoric placental genera)
    Wang, S.; Deng, T. (2011). "The first Choerolophodon (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) skull from China". Science China Earth Sciences. 54...
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    Prodeinotherium (category Prehistoric placental genera)
    K. (2002). "Systematics and Taxonomy of the European Deinotheriidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia)" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 103...
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    years ago on the landmass of Afro-Arabia. The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. The family Elephantidae arose a million...
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