Gomphotherium
| Gomphotherium Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen of Gomphotherium productum at the American Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Gomphotherium Burmeister, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Gomphotherium angustidens (Cuvier, 1817) | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "nail beast" for its double set of straight tusks) is an extinct genus of gomphothere proboscidean from the Neogene of Eurasia, Africa and North America. It is the most diverse genus of gompothere, with over a dozen valid species. The genus is probably paraphyletic.