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n. - Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk.

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  • That said, here is another controversial image of a possible proboscidean from Renegade Canyon in the Coso Range, Inyo County, California.
  • But how could anyone get mad at that face, with its mournful, innocent eyes and its proboscidean mouth where its hair ought to be, tottering after him with the stride of...
  • The image above from Utah may look familiar to you as I blogged about it here a couple of months ago as one of the very few possible images of Pleistocene megafauna a...
  • If it was a distinct genus as hypothesized then it would occupy a distinct place in the early proboscidean family tree.
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