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Extinct elephants of Central and South America
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gomphothere
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n. Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12—1.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
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Gomphotheres are any members of the diverse, extinct taxonomic family Gomphotheriidae . Gomphotheres were superficially elephant -like proboscideans . They were widespread in North America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12–1.6 million years ago. ...
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n. extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene
Usage examples of gomphothere.
Bulky, round, it might have been an infant gomphothere, perhaps felled by a chasma.
He could even see the corpse of that infant gomphothere, still lying on the ground.
Another family was the shovel-tuskers like these gomphotheres, with their hugely expanded and flattened lower tusks.