Prehistoric Elephant Skeleton

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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