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Progomphotherium maraisi

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

Taxonomy

Progomphotherium maraisi was named by Pickford (2003). Its type specimen is AM 1’95, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Auchas Pit AM 02, which is in a Miocene/Miocene channel siliciclastic in Namibia.

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2003	Progomphotherium maraisi Pickford p. 211 figs. Pl. 6, Fig. 1-3
2010	Progomphotherium maraisi Sanders et al. p. 198

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Afrotheria	Stanhope et al. 1998
—	Tethytheria
order	Proboscidea	()
family	Gomphotheriidae	Hay 1922
subfamily	Amebelodontinae
genus	Progomphotherium
species	maraisi

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.

†Progomphotherium maraisi Pickford 2003

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

browserf

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-31 15:21:50

Modified:

2005-08-31 17:21:50

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Lambert and Shoshani 1998, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Middle Miocene or 23.04000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene	23.04 - 11.63	Namibia	Progomphotherium maraisi (type locality: 70420)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene	23.04 - 11.63	Uganda	Gomphotheriidae indet. (28293)