Named By: | Burmeister in 1837 |
Time Period: | Early Miocene-Early Pleistocene |
Location: | Across Africa, Eurasia and North America |
Size: | Around 3 meters high at the shoulder |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Hundreds of specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Proboscidea | Gomphotheriidae | |
Also known as: | | Genomastodon | Ocalientinus | Serridentinus | Tatabelodon | Tetrabelodon | Trilophodon | Trobelodon | |
Gomphotherium ("Welded Beast") is an extinct genus of proboscid from the Neogene and early Pleistocene of Eurasia, Africa, and North America.