Prehistoric Elephant Skeleton

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Prehistoric Elephant Gomphotherium aff. steinheimense

Upper Freshwater Molasse,
Neogene: Miocene: Serravallium, approx. 12 Mio. years old
Gweng in Mühldorf, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

The Gomphotheria or teat-toothed elephants are extinct representatives of the proboscideans with two upper and two lower tusks that share common ancestors with the Pleistocene woolly mammoth and our modern elephants. They spread from Africa through Eurasia and North America to South America during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene. 

SNSB-BSPG 1971 I 275
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Prehistoric Elephant Skeleton

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The Gomphotheria or teat-toothed elephants are extinct representatives of the proboscideans with two upper and two lower tusks that share common ancestors with the Pleistocene woolly mammoth and our modern elephants.

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Woolly Mammoth Tusk

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The extinct woolly mammoths were the only proboscideans adapted to cold habitats and typical inhabitants of the ice-age mammoth steppes of Eurasia and North America.

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The giant deer got its name from the male’s antlers, which could have a span of up to 3.60 m, a record among all known antlers, be that fossil or present-day.

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