Platybelodon barnumbrowni Barbour 1931 (gomphothere)

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

Alternative combination: Torynobelodon barnumbrowni

Full reference: E. H. Barbour. 1931. A New Amebelodont, Torynobelodon barnumbrowni, sp. nov., a Preliminary Report. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 22:1-8

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

See also Barbour 1931, Barbour 1932, Gregory 1945, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Voorhies 1990, Voorhies and Brown 1993 and Wang et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Platybelodon dangheesis, Platybelodon danovi, Platybelodon grangeri, Platybelodon loomisi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Platybelodon Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution: found only at Platybelodon Quarry

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