Rhynchotherium
| Rhynchotherium Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Rhynchotherium Falconer, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| †Rhynchotherium falconeri Osborn, 1923 | |
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Rhynchotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidea endemic to North America and Central America during the Miocene through Pliocene from 13.650 to 3.6 Ma, living for approximately 10 million years.
This gomphothere had two tusks and may have evolved from Gomphotherium.