Serbelodon
Sign in to saveSerbelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean. It had tusks and a trunk. It lived in North America during the Miocene Epoch, and it was closely related to Amebelodon. They had a diet that consisted of C3 plants which include fruits, tree cortex, herbs, and leaves.
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Vinony files it under Amebelodontidae, Fossil taxa described in 1933 and Miocene mammals of North America.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Amebelodontidae
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Serbelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean. It had tusks and a trunk. It lived in North America during the Miocene Epoch, and it was closely related to Amebelodon. They had a diet that consisted of C3 plants which include fruits, tree cortex, herbs, and leaves.
Serbelodon burnhami was named after Frederick Russell Burnham the brother-in-law of the fossil's discoverer John C. Blick.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Serbelodon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.