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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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 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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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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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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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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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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List of placental mammals (redirect from List of placental mammals in Orders Tubulidentata, Hyracoidea, Proboscidea, and Sirenia)
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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the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct relatives include mammoths and mastodons. Distinctive features...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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order of marine mammals. The Desmostylia, together with Sirenia and Proboscidea (and possibly Embrithopoda), have traditionally been assigned to the...
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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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Patrick; Brunet, Michel (March 2009). "New material of Anancus kenyensis (proboscidea, mammalia) from Toros-Menalla (Late Miocene, Chad): Contribution to the...
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Sinomastodon ("Chinese mastodont") is an extinct gomphothere genus (of order Proboscidea) known from the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene of Asia, including...
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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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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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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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Choerophryne proboscidea is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is found in West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat...
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Gasteracantha cancriformis (redirect from Gasteracantha proboscidea)
picea C. L. Koch, 1844 Gasteracantha preciosa McCook, 1894 Gasteracantha proboscidea Taczanowski, 1879 Gasteracantha quadridens C. L. Koch, 1844 Gasteracantha...
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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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seminomadic lifestyle as farmers and herders. Shoshani, J. (2005). "Order Proboscidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A...
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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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Rhynchotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidea endemic to North America and Central America during the Miocene through Pliocene from 13.650 to 3.6...
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