Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Full reference: E. H. Barbour. 1927. Preliminary Notice of a New Proboscidean Amebelodon fricki, gen. et sp. nov. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 13:1-4
Parent taxon: Amebelodontinae according to J. Shoshani and P. Tassy 2005
See also Barbour 1927, Carroll 1988, Geraads et al. 2005, Lambert 1990, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sanders et al. 2010, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Wang et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Afromastodon, Archaeobelodon, Platybelodon, Platybelodontinae, Progomphotherium, Protanancus
Subtaxa: Amebelodon (Amebelodon) Amebelodon floridanus Amebelodon fricki Amebelodon grandincisivus Amebelodon joraki
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (13: Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas collections)
• Miocene of Turkey (1), United States (9: Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
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