Gomphotherium angustidens, Miocene, FR
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Product information "Gomphotherium angustidens, Miocene, FR"
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An almost completely preserved tusk from a prehistoric proboscidean.
Species: Gomphotherium angustidens
Age: Miocene;
Location: Sansans, France
Tusk dimensions: 41.5 x 6 x 3 cm
The Mastodonts (Mastodontoidea) are a taxon no longer in use for a superfamily of proboscideans. This group originally included the families of Gomphotheriidae, Mammutidae (sometimes referred to in German as “True Mastodonts”), and Stegodontidae. The term Mastodontoidea was introduced for this group by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) in 1921. It traces back to the genus Mastodon, which was originally used in 1817 by Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) for several species that, from today’s perspective, are not related to one another. Cuvier grouped Mastodon giganteum and Mastodon angustidens, among others, under the name Mastodon; the former is the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from the mammothid group, while the latter is now classified as Gomphotherium angustidens and assigned to the gomphotheriids. However, Cuvier had already described both in 1806 as le grand mastodonte and mastodonte à dents étroites, respectively. The name Mastodon comes from Ancient Greek and means μαστός (mastos), meaning “breast,” and οδον (odon), meaning “tooth.”
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