Platybelodon
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Platybelodon | |
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Platybelodon grangeri skeleton, Inner Mongolia Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Proboscidea |
Family: | †Amebelodontidae |
Subfamily: | † Platybelodontinae
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Genus: | †Platybelodon Borissiak, 1928 |
Type species | |
†Platybelodon danovi Borissiak, 1928
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Species | |
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Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct
.Palaeobiology
Platybelodon was previously believed to have fed in the swampy areas of grassy
aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation. However, wear patterns on the teeth suggest that it used its lower tusks to strip bark from trees, and may have used the sharp incisors that formed the edge of the "shovel" more like a modern-day scythe, grasping branches with its trunk and rubbing them against the lower teeth to cut it from a tree.[1] Adult animals in particular might have eaten coarser vegetation more frequently than juveniles.[2]
Images
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P. grangeri reconstruction with size comparison.
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Life reconstruction of P. grangeri.
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Outdated restoration of P. grangeri as a swamp-dweller.
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P. grangeri skull.
See also
References
- S2CID 87230816.
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Further reading
- Harry Cox, Colin Harrison, R.J.G. Savage, and Brian Gardiner. (1999): The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life. Simon & Schuster.
- Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton. (2002): Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids. Pg.90, Columbia University Press.
- Jayne Parsons.(2001): Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Pg.260, Dorling Kindersley.
- David Norman. (2001): The Big Book Of Dinosaurs. Pg.420-421, Welcome Books.
- Hazel Richardson.(2003): Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (SmithsonianHandbooks). Pg.173, Dorling Kindersley.