Serbelodon
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Serbelodon Temporal range: Middle Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Amebelodontidae |
| Genus: |
†Serbelodon Frick, 1933 |
| Type species | |
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†Serbelodon barbourensis Frick, 1933 |
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| Species | |
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†S. barbourensis Frick, 1933 |
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†S. barbourensis Frick, 1933
†S. burnhami Osborn, 1933
Serbelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean. It was a gomphothere "shovel-tusker". It had tusks and a trunk. It lived in North America during the Miocene Epoch, and it was closely related to Amebelodon.
Serbelodon burnhami was named after Frederick Russell Burnham the brother-in-law of the fossil's discoverer John C. Blick.
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