It's the only living mammal in the order Proboseidea
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Mastodon - Wikipedia  Mastodons are any species of extinct mammutid proboscideans in the genus Mammut, distantly ... Mastodons lived in herds and were predominantly forest dwelling animals that fed on a ... Mammut is a genus of the extinct family Mammutidae, related to the proboscidean family Elephantidae (mammoths and elephants), from...
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Proboscidean Mammals: EnchantedLearning.com  Proboscidea is an order of mammals that includes the elephants and their extinct ... There are two living members of the family Elephantidae (elephants), the...
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proboscidean | mammal | Britannica.com  Proboscidean (order Proboscidea), any of the group of mammals that includes ... Elephants and mammoths both belong to the only surviving proboscidean family, ... largest living land animal, characterized by its long trunk (elongated upper lip...
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The Proboscidea - University of California Museum of Paleontology  See the world (and its fossils) with UCMP's field notes. ... Proboscideans are an order of eutherian mammals that include the living elephants as well ... they persisted in Eurasia until the Pliocene and in Africa until just over one million years ago. ... The following sources were used in researching all the Proboscidea pages:.
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Scientific Classification of Elephants - Sea World  Species. Historically, elephants were classified into two species, the African ... The Order Proboscidea derived its name from the Latin word "proboscis" meaning trunk. ... Elephants are the only living members of the Order Proboscidea today.
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Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows | Order Sirenia facts - Animals  The four living species of the Sirenia are the dugong, Amazonian manatee, West ... The three species of manatees, and the closely related dugong, are unique in that ... The largest groups of manatees observed consist of only 4 - 8 animals.
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The 19 Orders of Mammals All animals with backbones, including ...  Mar 11, 2006 ... Mammals, members of the class Mammalia of vertebrate animals that includes humans, are the ... 178 genera, 926 species (the second largest mammalian order) ... Hylobatidae (gibbons), Pongidae (gorillas, chimpanzees,...
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Primate - Wikipedia  A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank"). In taxonomy, primates ... Most primate species remain at least partly arboreal. .... "monkeys" comprise two monophyletic groups, New World monkeys and Old ..... Prosimians are distinguished by their immobilized upper lips, the moist tip of their noses and...
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primate - Classification | mammal | Britannica.com  In zoology, any mammal of the group that includes the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers ... the prosimians, the tarsier, is actually more closely related to the anthropoids, so ... In this classification, the order is divided into the suborders Strepsirrhini and...
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Taxonomy The order Proboscidea contains one living family ...  Page 1 ... At the tip of the trunk there is a projection, which is used like a finger ... Tile African elephant has two such finger-like projections while the Asian has.
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Classification of Living Things: Linnaean Classification of Humans  Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Theria Infraclass: Eutheria Order: Primates Suborder: Anthropoidea
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Primate-like mammals: A stunning diversity in the tree tops  This suggests that the plesiadapiforms were not the direct ancestors of modern ... The picture is complicated by other still existing orders of mammals that must be ... and regard them instead as members of a separate order Plesiadapiformes (5). Figure 1: Hypothetical restoration of the Early Paleocene Purgatorius, one of...
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Primate - Wikipedia  A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank"). In taxonomy, primates ... Prosimians have characteristics more like those of the earliest primates, and include the ... Simians are divided into two groups: catarrhine (narrow-nosed) monkeys and apes of Africa .... Anthropoidea contained all of the simians.
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rodent | mammal | Britannica.com  Jun 17, 2016 ... Rodent (order Rodentia), any of more than 2,050 living species of mammals ... They are indigenous to every land area except Antarctica, New Zealand, ... or diastema, between incisors and cheek teeth, which number from 22 (5 ... (especially mice and rats), pleasure as household pets (see golden hamster...
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Chapter 8: The History of Life on Earth - San Juan Unified School ...  9 Mammals and dinosaurs were both alive on Earth at the same time. ... Why It's Important. The life and .... middle life, dinosaurs and mammals lived on land. ... kata prefix; from Greek; ..... forms to these rays could result in death or mutation. Recall .... Paleozoic era ended with the late Permian extinctionthe extinc-.
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10 animals that live the longest | MNN - Mother Nature Network  May 10, 2011 ... They are also among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth, with some individuals ... Also known as the Arctic whale, the bowhead is by far the longest living mammal on Earth. ... polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. ... Read this next ... 11 things humans do that dogs hate.
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Tooth Detectives: Determining the Diets of Extinct Animals  Students will be able to hypothesize what the diets of extinct animals were through ... The four basic types of mammal teeth are incisors, canines, premolars and molars. ... They are used by most mammals to nip food, although rodents have long, ... to wear to flat grinding surfaces and resemble the more posterior molar teeth.
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Edentata: EnchantedLearning.com  Edentata (also known as Xenarthra) is an order of placental mammals that includes anteaters, armadillos, and ... Click here to learn more. ... These New World animals (from the Americas) all lack front teeth; some have enamel-less cheek teeth. ... Edentata means "toothless. ... Suborder Vermilingua (3 species of anteaters).
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carnivore | mammal order | Britannica.com  The order Carnivora includes 12 families, 9 of which live on land: Canidae ... as do many of the animals that attract the largest crowds at circuses and zoos.
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Mammal - Wikipedia  Mammals are any vertebrates within the class Mammalia a clade of endothermic amniotes ... These were grouped in 1,229 genera, 153 families and 29 orders. ... and platypuses) and therian mammals (marsupials and placentals) and all ..... reproduce (cloaca)  as lizards and birds also do  and they lay eggs which are...
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toothed whale | suborder of mammals | Britannica.com  Toothed whale (suborder Odontoceti), any of the odontocete cetaceans, including the oceanic dolphins, ... Some odontocetes have only vestigial teeth buried in their jawbones; others have teeth that are ... Learn More in these related articles:...