Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Alternative spelling: Amebelodontidae
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: Gomphotheriidae according to S.-Q. Wang et al. 2013
See also Mothé et al. 2016, Osborn 1936, Sanders et al. 2010, Sanders and Miller 2002, Shoshani and Tassy 1996, Shoshani and Tassy 2005 and Wang et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Amahuacatherium, Anancinae, Blancotherium, Cuvieroniinae, Cuvieronius, Eubelodon, Eurybelodon, Gnathabelodon, Gomphotheriinae, Gomphotherium, Konobelodon, Masthodon, Mastodon shepardii, Mastotherium, Megabelodon, Morrillia, Pediolophodon, Pentalophodon, Rhynchotheriinae, Rhynchotherium, Rhynchotherium rectidens, Selenolophodon, Serbelodon, Sinomastodon, Stegomastodon, Synconolophus, Tetralophodon, Torynobelodon
Subtaxa: Afromastodon Amebelodon Archaeobelodon Platybelodon Platybelodontinae Progomphotherium Protanancus
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (16: Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas collections)
• Miocene of China (10), Egypt (1), Kenya (5), Namibia (2), Pakistan (7), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Uganda (1), United States (11: Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota)
Total: 57 collections including 62 occurrences