Platybelodon grangeri Osborn, 1929
Mammalia
Eutheria
Afrotheria
Proboscidea
Gomphotheriidae
Late Miocene
Mongolia.
Length: 3.5 m
Wear patterns of the teeth suggest that this shovel-tusked elephant used its lower tusks to strip the bark from trees, rather than shoveling aquatic plants as previously thought.
January 11, 2015
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