Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

Alternative combination: Gomphotherium thorpei

Full reference: E. H. Barbour and G. F. Sternberg. 1935. Gnathabelodon thorpei, gen. et sp. nov., a New Mud-grubbing Mastodon. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 42:1-12

Belongs to Gnathabelodon according to J. Shoshani and P. Tassy 1996

See also Barbour and Sternberg 1935, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Mothé et al. 2016 and Tobien 1973

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Robert Arnold Ranch, which is in a Clarendonian coarse channel fill gravel in Kansas

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Robert Arnold Ranch

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