Proboscidea

• “This is known as the Proboscidea Datum Event as, obviously, it’s the point when African proboscidean groups make their first appearance in Eurasia.”

  Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea

• “The temporal and geographical distribution of Morotochoerus and Schizochoerus indicates that peccaries invaded Africa from Asia during or after the Proboscidea Datum Event, with one lineage then leaving Africa later in the Miocene.”

  Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea

• “Proboscidea: A monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world, by Henry Fairfield Osborn”

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• “I have always thought that their genus name, Proboscidea, is much more appropriate than "devil's claw".”

  Another Ghost

• “By selecting seeds of devil’s claw plants (Proboscidea parviflora) with dark, long fibers, the most desirable characteristics for their craft, Tohono O’Odham Native American basket weavers in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico have created several new folk varieties. 40”

  14. Saving seeds for planting

• “NABHAN, G.P. and WEBER, C.W. (1981) Domesticated Proboscidea parviflora: A potential oilseed crop for arid lands.”

  Chapter 5

• “This is clearly exemplified in the case of the Proboscidea, and many other examples could be quoted.”

  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

• “The _Proboscidea_, or Trunked Animals, which family is represented in this age only by the families of elephants, which have a peculiar appendage called a "trunk," which they use as an additional limb;”

  A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

• “The narial aperture is thus pushed up, and is short, with an upward direction, as in the Cetacea and Sirenia, with whom the Proboscidea have certain affinities.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “The order Proboscidea, or animals whose noses are prolonged into a flexible trunk, consists of one genus containing two living species only -- the Indian and”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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