| Rhynchotherium Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Proboscidea |
| Family: | †Gomphotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Rhynchotherium Falconer, 1868 |
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Rhynchotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidea endemic to North America and Central America during the Miocene through Pliocene from 13.650—3.6 Ma, living for approximately 10 million years.[1]
This gomphothere had two tusks and may have evolved from Gomphotherium.[2]
Rhynchotherium was named by Falconer (1868). Its type is Rhynchotherium tlascalae. It was assigned to Gomphotheriidae by Falconer (1868), Carroll (1988), Lambert and Shoshani (1998) and Corona-M and Alberdi (2006).