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You are here: Top: Science:Earth Sciences:Paleontology:Vertebrates:Mammals:Proboscidea (13)
- Amebelodon - The Shovel-tusker: Account of a new discovery.
- Calvin College Mastodon Resource - Mastodon resource containing a growing number of journal articles and links. Also features photographic inventory and journal of Calvin College's current mastodon excavation in Grand Rapids, MI.
- Elephant Evolution - Article discussing the extant and extinct members of the Proboscidea with a chart showing ancestral proboscideans.
- Gomphotherium - Information and an llustration of this ancestor of mammoths and elephants, with a photograph of a lower jaw of Gomphotherium angustidens from Austria.
- The Mammoth Story - Article by Grant Kedie on elephants and the fossil remains of four extinct species that have been found in British Columbia. [PDF]
- Mammoths - Provides information on these extinct members of the Proboscidea, three species of which lived on the mainland of the United States at the end of the last Ice Age.
- Mastodon State Historic Site - Special feature from the Saint Louis Front Page on the mastodon fossils found in Missouri in what is now known as the Kimmswick Bone Bed.
- Mastodons - The american mastodon, Mammut americanum, became extinct about 11,000 years ago. This illustrated article shows exhibits at the Illinois State Museum.
- Moeritherium - Moeritherium is regarded as the ancestor of the order Proboscidea, which includes all the elephants. Illustration and information.
- Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae: Eritreum - Provides an illustration and information on Eritreum melakeghebrekristosi which lived in the late Paleocene.
- Stegodon - Illustration and information on this ancestor of the elephant which had its origins in the late Miocene.
- The UnMuseum - Mammoth and mastodon exhibit.
- Woolly Mammoths: Evidence of Catastrophe? - Two articles questioning accepted views on whether preserved mammoth remains indicate the occurrence of a great catastrophe and whether mammoths were well adapted for living in cold climates.
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