Megabelodon
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| Megabelodon Temporal range: | |
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| M. lulli skeleton | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Megabelodon Barbour, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| †Megabelodon lulli Barbour, 1914 | |
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Megabelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean which inhabited North America in from the Miocene to the Pliocene. Specimens were found in Nevada and New Mexico.[1][2] The genus has been disputed, with some paleontologists considering Megabelodon as a synonym of Gomphotherium,[3] while others have considered it to be a genus of amebelodontid.[4]
