Archaeobelodon

Archaeobelodon; Temporal range: Early-Middle Miocene (MN4b-8); ~18–17 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Skeleton of A. filholi at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Proboscidea
Family:	†Amebelodontidae
Genus:	†Archaeobelodon; Tassy, 1984
Type species
	†Archaeobelodon filholi; Frick, 1933
Other Species
	†A. tassyi Sanders and colleagues, 2026;
Synonyms
	Serridentinus filholi Frick, 1933;

Archaeobelodon is an extinct genus of proboscidean of the family Amebelodontidae that lived in Europe and North Africa (Egypt) during the Miocene from 18 to 17 million years ago

Archaeobelodon was an ancestor of Platybelodon and Amebelodon. Archaeobelodon had a trunk and tusks.^[1] It reached a weight of about 2305 - 3477 kg, being smaller than a modern elephant.^[2]

References

^ Alberdi, M. T.; Prado, J. L.; Ortiz-Jaureguizar, E.; Posadas, P.; Donato, M. (2007), "Historical Biogeography of Trilophoont Gomphotheres (Mammalia, Proboscidea) Reconstructed Applying Dispersion-Vicariance Analysis" (PDF), in Díaz-Martínez, E.; Rábano, I. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America, Zaragoza Spain 17-19 September 2007, Madrid: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, pp. 9–14, ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1, retrieved 2008-07-28
^ Göhlich, Ursula B. (February 2010). "The Proboscidea (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (southern Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 84 (1): 163–204. Bibcode:2010PalZ...84..163G. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0053-1. S2CID 140539843.

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[1] Alberdi, M. T.; Prado, J. L.; Ortiz-Jaureguizar, E.; Posadas, P.; Donato, M. (2007), "Historical Biogeography of Trilophoont Gomphotheres (Mammalia, Proboscidea) Reconstructed Applying Dispersion-Vicariance Analysis" (PDF), in Díaz-Martínez, E.; Rábano, I. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America, Zaragoza Spain 17-19 September 2007, Madrid: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, pp. 9–14, ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1, retrieved 2008-07-28

[2] Göhlich, Ursula B. (February 2010). "The Proboscidea (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (southern Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 84 (1): 163–204. Bibcode:2010PalZ...84..163G. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0053-1. S2CID 140539843.

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