Deinotherium enters the LRT with Gomphotherium

Known since Kaup 1829,Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup 1829; Late Miocene; Figs 1, 2) is a large deinothere (Fig 2), the clade of elephants lacking premaxillary tusks. Instead large dentary (= mandible) tusks curl ventrally then posteriorly in all deinotheres (Fig 2) , distinct from all other elephant genera, as everyone already knows. Interrelationships have been traditionally…

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Poebrotherium enters the LRT at the base of camels

Deinotherium, a huge and primitive proboscidean that had tusks on its lower jaws instead of its upper jaws, unlike its distant elephant relatives : r/Naturewasmetal

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Deinotherium Walk Loop, Deinotherium (terrible beast) was a large prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene and survived until the Early, By SurfaceVision

Tiny Phyllodontosuchus lufengensis enters the LRT alongside tiny Coloradisuchus

Gomphotherium - The Weilded Beast - An Early Elephant - Facts and Information About the Prehistoric Elephant

A partial skeleton of Deinotherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the late Middle Miocene Gratkorn locality (Austria)

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Deinotherium enters the LRT with Gomphotherium

Gomphotherium - The Weilded Beast - An Early Elephant - Facts and Information About the Prehistoric Elephant

Poebrotherium enters the LRT at the base of camels

Gomphotherium - The Weilded Beast - An Early Elephant - Facts and Information About the Prehistoric Elephant