Serbelodon

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Serbelodon is an extinct genus of African and European Proboscidean. It was a gomphothere "shovel-tusker". It had tusks and a trunk. It lived during the Miocene Epoch, and may have evolved from Amebelodon.

In 1933, Serbelodon burnhami (now Amebelodon burnhami) was newly discovered and named after the celebrated scout Frederick Russell Burnham.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (June 29, 1933). "Serbelodon Burnhami, a new Shovel-Tusker from California". American Museum Novitates (639): 1–5. Retrieved 2007-11-01. 


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