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    Proboscidea (/ˌproʊbəˈsɪdiə/; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals...
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    Proboscidea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae, some of whose species are known as devil's claw, devil's horn, ram's horn, or unicorn...
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    Proboscidea parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names doubleclaw and red devil's-claw. It is native...
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    Proboscidea louisianica is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae. Its true native range is unclear, but probably includes parts of the...
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    years ago on the landmass of Afro-Arabia. The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. The family Elephantidae arose a million...
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    the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct relatives include mammoths and mastodons. Distinctive features...
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    the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family...
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  • Proboscidea sabulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names sanddune unicorn-plant, dune unicorn plant and...
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  • Pholidota (0.10%) Hyracoidea (0.09%) Monotremata (0.08%) Sirenia (0.06%) Proboscidea (0.05%) Dermoptera (0.03%) Microbiotheria (0.03%) Notoryctemorphia (0...
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    bilophodont cheek teeth (double transverse ridges on the crowns of the teeth). Proboscidea and Sirenia are linked together based on auditory characters in their...
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    a clade of "sub-ungulates", which groups three extant mammal orders: Proboscidea (including elephants), Sirenia (sea cows, including dugongs and manatees)...
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    Perissodactyla by a 2014 cladistic analysis) Order †Embrithopoda Order Proboscidea: elephants (Africa, Southeast Asia) Order Sirenia: dugong and manatees...
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    Central and South America. Its seeds are shaped like the head of a goat. Proboscidea louisianica, a plant in the family Martyniaceae, is probably native to...
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    review of craniofacial evolutionary anatomy in elephants and extinct Proboscidea". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.25578. ISSN 1932-8486. PMID 39380178...
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    Hyraxes share several unusual characteristics with mammalian orders Proboscidea (elephants and their extinct relatives) and Sirenia (manatees and dugongs)...
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    "On the type material of Elephas hysudrindicus Dubois, 1908 (Mammalia, Proboscidea)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (1): e1425211. Bibcode:2018JVPal...
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  • Proboscidea spicata, the New Mexico unicorn-plant, is a herbaceous, flowering plant. Proboscidea spicata occurs in southwest regions of Texas, and southeastern...
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    The Proboscidea: Trends in Evolution and Paleoecology. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. Lambert, W. D., and J. Shoshani, 1998. The Proboscidea. In...
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    Gray in 1821, and later assigned to taxonomic ranks within the order Proboscidea. Elephantidae has been revised by various authors to include or exclude...
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    Avilla; Desi Zhao; Guangpu Xie; Boyang Sun (2016). "A new Mammutidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China". Anais da...
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    Sanders, William J. (7 July 2023). Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea (1 ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 94. doi:10.1201/b20016. ISBN 978-1-315-11891-8...
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  • Colossendeis proboscidea is a species of sea spider in the family Colossendeidae. It is native to the Arctic and northeast Atlantic. Bamber RN, El Nagar...
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    Proboscidea althaeifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names desert unicorn-plant and yellow-flowered...
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    classified within the cohort Afrotheria in the clade Paenungulata, alongside Proboscidea (elephants), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Embrithopoda, Desmostylia, and Afroinsectiphilia...
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    1923 (Mammalia, Proboscidea): Proposed conservation. Bull. Zool. Nomen, 66, 1-6. Lucas, S.P., 2008a. Cuvieronius (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Neogene...
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    This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies during the Late Pleistocene. It includes all known species that have had their tissues...
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  • Oedignatha proboscidea is a species of spider of the genus Oedignatha endemic to Sri Lanka. List of Liocranidae species "Oedignatha proboscidea (Strand,...
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    "The Fossil Record of Continental Elephants and Mammoths (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Elephantidae) in Greece", Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1, Cham:...
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    presence of primitive Elephantiformes in Lutetian deposits. Phylogeny of Proboscidea showing placement of Deinotheriidae, following Hautier et al. 2021: The...
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    Avilla, Leonardo S.; Zhao, Desi; Xie, Guangpu (2016). "A new Mammutidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China". Anais da...
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