Blancotherium

Blancotherium
Temporal range: Clarendonian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Gomphotheriidae
Genus: †Blancotherium
May, 2019
Type species
†Blancotherium buckneri
(Sellards, 1940)

Blancotherium (meaning "Blanco Creek beast") is an extinct genus of gomphotheriid proboscidean from Texas. Originally named Gnathabelodon "buckneri", the genus consists solely of type species B. buckneri.

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