Deinotherium - Wikipedia
WEBDeinotherium is an extinct genus of large, elephant-like proboscideans that lived from about the middle-Miocene until the early Pleistocene.
Deinotherium | Dinosaurs - Pictures and Facts
WEBQuick Deinotherium Facts. Lived from the Middle Miocene all the way to the Modern Period; Lived all over Africa and Eurasia; Was longer than an Asian elephant; Weighed twice as much as an African bush elephant; May have inspired “Giant” myths; Was an herbivore; Deinotherium Pictures
Deinotherium - The Terrible Beast - Facts and Information about …
WEBDeinotherium: "Terrible Beast". A nearly complete mounted Deinotherium giganteum on display at the Natural History Museum in Bucharest. This elephant towers over all the other types of elephants. The specimen pictured here is the type specimen of G. giganteum and is late Miocene in age from Romania.
Deinotherium - Facts and Figures - ThoughtCo
WEBMar 17, 2017 · About Deinotherium . The "deino" in Deinotherium derives from the same Greek root as the "dino" in dinosaur--this "terrible mammal" (actually a genus of prehistoric elephant) was one of the largest non-dinosaur animals ever to roam the earth, rivaled only by contemporary "thunder beasts" like Brontotherium and Chalicotherium. Apart from its ...
An extinct “anchor-tusked” proboscidean - National Geographic
WEBJul 24, 2009 · An aquatic Deinotherium could just as easily be understood in terms of an unbroken chain of creatures created by God, thus filling a gap in nature. Deinotherium , as restored in Hitchcock’s ...
Deinotherium Facts - information about the extinct, prehistoric …
WEBDeinotherium. Deinotherium was a genus of herbivore related to elephants that evolved in the middle Miocene, about 15 million years ago, and survived until the early Pleistocene epoch, perhaps 1 million years ago. It lived in Asia, Africa and Europe .
The first specimen of Deinotherium indicum (Mammalia, …
WEBDeinotherium indicum from Tapar is larger than other deinotheres identified from Kutch and is the first occurrence of the species in the region. This new specimen helps constrain the age of the Tapar beds to the Tortonian and increases the biogeographic range of this species—hitherto only known from two localities on the subcontinent.
The family Deinotheriidae and genus Deinotherium - Elephant ...
WEBApr 6, 2024 · D. indicum appears in the middle Miocene, and is most common in the late Miocene. It disappears from the fossil record about 7 million years BP (late Miocene). Facts and information about the family Deinotheriidae and the genus Deinotherium by elephant consultant Dan Koehl.
Deinotherium - Prehistoric Fauna
WEBDeinotherium (Deinotherium Kaup, 1829) Order: Proboscidea. Family: Deinotheriidae. Dimensions: length - 7 m, height - 3,5 - 4,1 m, weight - 8 000 - 13 000 kg. Temporal range: lived during the Late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the Early Pleistocene (Africa, Europe, and Asia) Species: † Deinotherium bozasi (Arambourg, 1934)
Deinotherium levius and Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea ...
WEBSep 19, 2023 · Biochronological distribution of Deinotherium levius, Deinotherium giganteum, Gomphotherium spp. and Tetralophodon longirostris close to the Middle–Late Miocene transition, and chronology of selected central European localities.
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