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Konobelodon
Taxonomy
Amebelodon (Konobelodon) was named by Lambert (1990). Its type is Amebelodon (Konobelodon) britti.
It was reranked as Konobelodon by Konidaris et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2017) and Konidaris and Tsoukala (2019).
It was assigned to Amebelodon by Lambert (1990); to Gomphotheriidae by Konidaris et al. (2014); to Amebelodontinae by Wang et al. (2017); and to Amebelodontidae by Konidaris and Tsoukala (2019).
It was reranked as Konobelodon by Konidaris et al. (2014), Wang et al. (2017) and Konidaris and Tsoukala (2019).
It was assigned to Amebelodon by Lambert (1990); to Gomphotheriidae by Konidaris et al. (2014); to Amebelodontinae by Wang et al. (2017); and to Amebelodontidae by Konidaris and Tsoukala (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Amebelodon (Konobelodon) Lambert p. 1033 |
| 2014 | Konobelodon Konidaris et al. |
| 2017 | Konobelodon Wang et al. p. 613 |
| 2019 | Konobelodon Konidaris and Tsoukala |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Konobelodon Lambert 1990
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†Amebelodon (Konobelodon) cyrenaicus Lambert 1990
†Konobelodon atticus Wagner 1857
†Konobelodon britti Lambert 1990
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. D. Lambert 1990 | etralophodont second molar; permanent lower tusks with internal dentinal rods; M3's with six well-developed lophs(ids); lower tusk dentinal rods with distinctive morphol- ogy, relatively narrow, structurally distinct near proximal end of tusk, expanding and tending to merge towards distal |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hemphillian to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 10.30000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Drama) | Proboscidea sp. (182682) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Aegean) | K. atticus (182751) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Attica) | Mastodon atticus (182754) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Euboea) | Tetralophodon longirostris (195435) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Amebelodon fricki (18564) |