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- noun Plural form of
gomphothere .
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More than fourteen thousand years ago, giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths, elephantine gomphotheres and Hummer-sized beavers roamed the Americas.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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More than fourteen thousand years ago, giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths, elephantine gomphotheres and Hummer-sized beavers roamed the Americas.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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More than fourteen thousand years ago, giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths, elephantine gomphotheres and Hummer-sized beavers roamed the Americas.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Five species of proboscidians (mammoths, mastadons and gomphotheres) once roamed North America in the Late Pleistocene; today many of the remaining African and Asian elephants are in grave danger.
The Pleistocene Park 2005
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Five species of proboscidians (mammoths, mastadons and gomphotheres) once roamed North America in the Late Pleistocene; today many of the remaining African and Asian elephants are in grave danger.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Details about extinct species like the kangaroo-lion and four-tusked gomphotheres sit alongside facts about animals who survived to the present, such as polar bears; several significant fossil finds are also discussed.
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Researchers from the University of Arizona and Mexico's anthropology institute say they found the bones of two young gomphotheres, along with blades, a scraping tool and stone chips from making spear tips, at an 11,000-year-old ice-age encampment between Caborca and Hermosillo in Sonora.
azcentral.com | news 2009
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MEXICO CITY - Scientists have found evidence that cavemen near the Arizona-Mexico border were butchering gomphotheres, an elephant-like beast with a crocodilelike snout that was believed to be nearly extinct in North America by the time humans appeared there.
azcentral.com | news 2009
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But Sánchez said researchers would have to find more sites like World's End before they can say whether gomphotheres were widely hunted.
azcentral.com | news 2009
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About 12,000-10,000 years ago, when modern humans reached the continent, these animals vanished, and according to Corlett, Janzen argued that "as a consequence of this, species that produce fruits dispersed by gomphotheres and other now extinct giant vertebrates have suffered."
The annotated budak 2008
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