Gomphotherium

Not to be confused with Comphotherium.
"Tetrabelodon" redirects here. Not to be confused with Stegotetrabelodon.

Gomphotherium
Specimen of Gomphotherium productum at the American Museum of Natural History
Skeleton of Gomphotherium angustidens at the Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Gomphotheriidae
Genus: †Gomphotherium
Burmeister, 1837
Type species
Gomphotherium angustidens
(Cuvier, 1817)
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Trilophodon Falconer and Cautley, 1846
  • Bunolophodon Vacek, 1877
  • Tetrabelodon Cope, 1884
  • Serridentinus Osborn, 1923
  • Trobelodon Frick, 1933
  • Ocalientinus Frick, 1933
  • Tatabelodon Frick, 1933

Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "nail beast" for its double set of straight tusks) is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean from the Neogene of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the most diverse genus of gomphothere, with over a dozen valid species. The genus is probably paraphyletic, and ancestral to other gomphothere genera.

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