Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Alternative combination: Amebelodon barbourensis
Full reference: C. Frick. 1933. New remains of trilophodont-tetrabelodont mastodons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59(9):505-652
Belongs to Serbelodon according to J. Shoshani and P. Tassy 1996
See also Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Skinner and Johnson 1984, Tobien 1972, Voorhies 1990 and Wang et al. 2017
Sister taxon: Serbelodon burnhami
Type specimen: F:AM 25730. Its type locality is Xmas Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (3: Nebraska collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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