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  Platybelodon
Platybelodon was 20 ft (6 m) long, 9 ft (2.8 m) tall at the shoulder and weighed about 4.5 tons (4 tonnes).
Platybelodon was an herbivore (plant-eater) that ate leaves.
Platybelodon lived in wet parts of prairies and ate soft plants (including water plants).
www.meta-religion.com /Zoology/Exctinct/platybelodon.htm   (257 words)

  
 Platybelodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Platybelodon ("flat-tusk toothed") is a species of large, herbivorous mammal related to the elephant (order Proboscidea).
Due to the shape of the two lower teeth, the Platybelodon and Amebelodon are popularly known as shovel tuskers.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Platybelodon   (186 words)

  
 Starlux figures, page 1
Besides the two shovel-like tusks on the lower jaw, Platybelodon had a pair of short, and more conventional, tusks on the upper jaw.
The Starlux figure has these uppers painted on the sides of the trunk, but they look to me to be a bit too long.
Platybelodon ranged through Africa, eastern Europe and Mongolia.
www.rubberdinosaurs.com /starlux1.htm   (1540 words)

  
 Partha's page
Trilophodon lived from 26 to 3 million years ago.
Platybelodon lived from 12 to 7 million years ago.
The woolly mammoth lived about two million years ago.
www.narasimhan.com /Partha/Science_factfile/evolution7.htm   (132 words)

  
 The Bone Room - Mammal Fossils
This extinct group of proboscidians was characterized by cusped molar teeth.
While we occassionally have fossils from the American Mastodon Mammut americanum, most of our fossils come from the much older Platybelodon sp.
Commonly called "Shovel-Tuskers", this group of mastodons was known for a scoop-like "shovel" formed form the fusion of its lower tusks.
www.boneroom.com /fossils/vertfossils.html   (441 words)

  
 Proboscidea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the period of the last ice age there were more, now extinct species, including a number of species of the elephant-like mammoths and mastodons.
Further back in time, in the late Tertiary, there were many more different types, including the bizarre "shovel tuskers" like Platybelodon and Amebelodon.
The earliest known proboscidean is Phosphatherium dating from paleocene deposits of Morocco.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Proboscidea   (323 words)

  
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A short time later, Moeritherium evolved with even smaller ears, a smaller nose, and a face that resembled a member of the cat family.
About 6 million years ago, Platybelodon evolved with a look that resembled a platypus.
It had a long bill and its nose finally began to evolve into a trunk.
faculty.pnc.edu /pwilkin/fase2.doc   (1990 words)

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