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Definition of Gomphotherium
1. Noun. Type genus of the Gomphotheriidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Gomphotheriidae, Gomphotheriidae
Member holonyms: Gomphothere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gomphotherium
Literary usage of Gomphotherium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science by George Frederick Kunz (1916)
"CHAPMANI (Cope). 1874 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 222 gomphotherium ... 83.
Pliocene. India (Punjab and Sind). gomphotherium (MASTODON) ..."
2. Index Generum Mammalium: A List of the Genera and Families of Mammals by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1904)
"Type: gomphotherium degan» Filhol. Apparently merely a modified forni"'1 genus
... from the Miocene (John Day) of Oregon- Name preoccupied by gomphotherium ..."
3. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1899)
"In gomphotherium, once more, the direction of development is changed and the
outer portion of the bulla begins to enlarge at the expense of the inner, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"9), also with four cross-crests and a heel in m^, has the summits of the crests
much more acute than in the gomphotherium type and the valleys as free from ..."