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Bookmark or Share- Proboscidea - WikipediaProboscidea (/ ˌprɒbəˈskɪdiə /; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by J. Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close relatives. [ 1 ] .
- The Proboscidea - University of California Museum of PaleontologyOther ancestral proboscideans include Numidotherium, Barytherium, and Deinotherium. Remains of these early proboscideans were recovered in northern Africa along what was once the southern shore of the Tethys Sea during the Oligocene. Numidotherium stood about 1.5 meters tall and had a trunk about the length of a tapir's. Many remains of this ...
- ADW: Proboscidea: INFORMATIONThe earliest proboscideans lacked any trunk or tusks. These structures appeared in several different forms, with trunks of varying length and massiveness (inferred from the morphology of the skull; trunks are soft tissue that is not fossilized) and tusks in a variety of shapes, sometimes including lower as well as upper teeth.
- The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and Their ...It reviews their classification and phylogeny, the early differentiation of proboscideans, the major adaptive radiations and their evolutionary patterns, and the origins and current status of extant elephant species.
- Evolution and Fossil Record of African ProboscideaProboscideans are one of the longest-known placental mammal groups and the most deeply embedded eutherian mammal group in all of Africa. They have been continuously present on the continent for all of the 60 million years.
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